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Technology › Japanese Internet book search system to be developed

Japan's writers guild and the national library teamed up Wednesday to create an Internet book search system to counter U.S. search engine Google Inc's similar… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Wed, Nov 04 2009

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