I am sure many readers might have heard that Google is busily scanning printed documents around the world for Google Scholar.

Whether you are a "scholar" or not you owe it to yourself to check out this amazing resource. I tested the beta version and was positively shocked by how easy it was to use and the amount of information a user can readily find.

I searched topics like Abraham Lincoln and even a book or two that I authored. It is amazing to see the full text appearing and then to see the links and articles that Google Search offers in tandem with the full text.

The number of uses that the public will derive from this service is enough to want one to run out and buy Google stock (by the way I am not a stockholder).