Google Brings Books Closer to You

Google launches free tool which will let you add books to its search index called Google Book.

Book lovers will be happy to know that they will have more books across more websites, thanks to Google's efforts.

Google is launching a set of free tools that allow retailers, publishers, and anyone with a website to embed books from the Google Book Search index. The company will also enable people using these to display full-text search results from Book Search, and even integrate with social features such as ratings, reviews, and readers' book collections.

The search giant has partnered with several booksellers to enable preview functionality for their sites So, when you're shopping online for books, you may see this feature at work.

Also, users will be able to search within a book, zoom in and out on the page, and browse up to 20% of the book, just as it is possible on the Book Search site.