• SEO by the Sea, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1 PM

Have you ever worked in a place where management has asked you to turn down the music coming from your computer or the radio in your work space? Bill Slawski points to a related patent granted to Google this week

The patent, originally filed on June 30, 2003, raises the question of what kind of listening music helps someone scan books best, and how a musical tempo might influence someone manually turning pages. The patent also links to three related Google patents that involve book scanning. Slawski tells us why Google might want to scan books manually, instead of using an automated process.

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