# Google's new book search deals in ideas, not keywords

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 14, 2018, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-new-book-search-deals-in-ideas-not-keywords/812384 "2018-04-14T05:27:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2018, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-new-book-search-deals-in-ideas-not-keywords/812384/1 "2018-04-14T05:27:55Z")

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> A new Google project called called “Talk to Books” provides answers to questions by drawing on a library of more than 100,000 books…
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> Why it matters: Keyword search is great when you’re hunting down a specific piece of information, but Google — and digital technology in general — still has a long way to go when it comes to connecting ideas and answering questions with complete thoughts.
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> The Talk to Books site explains, “When you type in a question or a statement, the model looks at every sentence in over 100,000 books to find the responses that would most likely come next in a conversation.”

[https://www.axios.com/googles-new-book-search-1523660313-183fb57a-7d2e-470e-92b2-b6c833d89663.html](https://www.axios.com/googles-new-book-search-1523660313-183fb57a-7d2e-470e-92b2-b6c833d89663.html)

Site is at:

> **[Talk to Books](https://books.google.com/talktobooks/)**
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> Talk to Books was a new way to explore ideas and discover books. Select one of
> the samples to view its archived search results.

Looks interesting.

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**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2018, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-new-book-search-deals-in-ideas-not-keywords/812384/2 "2018-04-14T13:50:32Z")

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Bookmarking - I think I’ll love it