Google Gives $3 Million to Help Scan Documents
From Associated Press
Google Inc. is giving $3 million to the Library of Congress to help set up a system for creating digital copies of rare documents from around the world -- the latest step in Google’s crusade to expand the amount of information that can be indexed by its Internet search engine.
With the donation, Mountain View, Calif.-based Google becomes the first business to back the World Digital Library, which began to take shape about five months ago. The worldwide program is loosely modeled after the Library of Congress’ American Memory project.
