alt Hacker NewsGoogle already successfully argued in court that creating an online search index of books constitutes fair use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....
Google already successfully argued in court that creating an online search index of books constitutes fair use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....
The index isn't the full content. The OP search is about indexing the entire contents of the book for verbatim information retrieval.