Authors' case against Google Books dismissed  Google has scanned
more than 20 million books and magazines and made them
searchable online.  Story highlights    • Judge dismisses class-
action lawsuit against Google's book-scanning program on
Thursday   • Google Book program has scanned millions of paper
books, made the text searchable online   • Authors complained
the Google project infringes on their copyright  Google began an
ambitious project in 2004: to scan and index the world's paper
books and make them searchable online.  Nine years later, the
company has overcome a major roadblock in its mission. On
Thursday, a judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit against the
Google Books project brought by authors who claimed the project
violated their copyrights.  By sheer numbers, the Google Books
project has been a huge success. More than 20 million books and
magazines have been scanned using optical character-recognition
technology, making each word or phrase searchable, so snippets
of text are part of Google se