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Microsoft Joins Yahoo! Book Search Plan

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 26, 2005 @05:46AM 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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Yahoo??? by waterlogged · 2005-10-26 05:49 · Score: 0, Redundant

How is this in any way linked to Yahoo? I thought that Google was the one doing this. Methinks the poster has been into the halloween candy a little early..... and that candy corn had an "E" on it for some strange reason.

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Not Surprising really by LiquidCoooled · 2005-10-26 05:53 · Score: 0, Redundant

Afterall, you didn't expect to hear about them supporting Google's plan did you ;)

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Whew! by neologee · 2005-10-26 06:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

Microsoft just keeps on begging for lawsuits!

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From the article by Skiron · 2005-10-26 06:25 · Score: 0, Redundant

"Microsoft said it would initially focus on works already in the public domain. This opens up a whole new innovation from Microsoft that will allow all users access to otherwise restricted works - if they have a Hotmail account and use MSN messenger on XP sp2" Yeah!