Which of the following statements is true according to what you hear?

In several metropolitan areas, from Miami to Riverside, Calif. , where the real estate market is white hot, rapidly rising prices are luring a growing number of ordinary people into buying and selling residences they do not intend to occupy, despite warnings from some economists that prices cannot continue to rise as steeply as they have in the last few years.

Google Inc. is trying to establish an online reading room for the New York public library as well as libraries at four universities — Harvard, Stanford, Michigan and Oxford in England — by scanning stacks of hard-to-find books into its widely-used Internet search engine. Scanning books so they can be read through computers isn’t new. But Google’s latest commitment could have the biggest impact yet, given the breadth of material that the company hopes to put into its search engine, which has become renowned for its processing speed, ease of use and accuracy.