How is it different for Google to index a book vs. a web page?
Two ways come to mind: As far as just creating a searchable index of a book vs. a web page, for a web page, the author put it up on a web site for everyone in the world to come visit. Authors of books for sale generally write them with the hope of getting paid when people buy the book — they didn’t post them on a web site for all the public to read for free. (See also Isn’t browsing a book on a CDS the same as free bookstore browsing or library borrowing?.) As stated elsewhere in this FAQ, it’s currently being litigated whether it’s legal to create a searchable index. The second issue, completely aside from the first, is that the CDS’s have gone beyond a mere searchable index. They display the actual scanned images of the pages, from which it’s very simple to extract an entire book. Even if Google wins the lawsuits about creating an index, it will still be illegal for them to allow entire books to be extracted (and that would be a lawsuit I doubt they could win). COCOA solves this pro
