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Microsoft Joins Yahoo! Book Search Plan

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the information-is-a-drug dept.

tanman writes "The BBC is reporting that Microsoft has signed on to 'work with the Open Content Alliance (OCA), set up by the Internet Archive, to initially put 150,000 works online. The move comes as Google faces growing legal pressure from publishers over its own global digital library plans.'"

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  1. this must frost google's OO by CDPatten · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It looks like another nail in the Google Print Coffin. Author's Guild and AAP both suing. Google must be so incredibly pissed today. I know they try to put on a good public face, but Eric Schmidt must be throwing a chair across the room right now saying "I'm gonna kill them". ;-). With MS, Yahoo, and most importantly the authors and publishers backing this, Google Print is just about done.

    Can we add this to the growing list of projects that Google has released that just haven't panned out, dare I say flopped? Google Search appliance, Google Web Accelerator, GTalk, Google Reader, Personalized Search, Google Ride Finder, Google Personalized Home Page, ummm... yes we can add it, Google Print. LOL.

    Google should change their motto from "Don't be Evil" to "Throw enough shit against the wall, something will stick".

    Go ahead flame away............... oh and by all means, all you google fan boys, write me and tell me how great those services are, it was just the rest of the world who rejected them that is stupid.