Google’s secret effort to scan every book in the world, codenamed “Project
Ocean,” began in earnest in 2002 when Larry Page and Marissa Mayer sat down
in the office together with a 300-page book and a metronome. Page wanted to
know how long it would take to scan more than a hundred-million books, so
he started with one that was lying around. Using the metronome to keep a
steady pace, he and Mayer paged through the book cover-to-cover. It took
them 40 minutes.Page had always wanted to digitize books. Way back in 1996,
the student project that eventually became Google—a “crawler” that would
ingest documents and rank them for relevance against a user’s query—was
actually conceived as part of an effort “to develop the enabling
technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library.”

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