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INFORMATION services industry; GOOGLE Inc.; WEB search engines; BOOKSTORES; UNITED States. Government Printing Office; LIBRARY associations; GOVERNMENT agencies; BOOKS; COOPERATIVE cataloging databases; COMPUTER input-output equipment; COMPUTER software; CONFERENCES & conventions; MERGERS & acquisitions; CONSUMER attitudes; ACADEMIC dissertations; INFORMATION retrieval; INTERNET; LIBRARIES; PUBLIC relations; SOCIAL networks; TEXTBOOKS; EMAIL; ELECTRONIC commerce; REFERENCE sources; SEARCH engines; ACCESS to information; DATA security; SCIENCE; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.

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This section offers news briefs related to the information services industry worldwide. An enhanced version of the standard Google search engine has been released by Google which is called Google Instant. ProQuest announces that interested parties are no longer required to pay a fee if they want to submit their graduate research work in the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Database. Information on the new bookstore opened in Washington, D.C. by the U.S. Government Printing Office is also presented.