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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. Re:Yahoo??? by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mabye you ought to RTFA:

    From TFA:
    Microsoft has joined a Yahoo-backed effort to digitise the world's books and other works to make them searchable and accessible to anyone online.

    The software giant said it would work with the Open Content Alliance (OCA), set up by the Internet Archive, to initially put 150,000 works online.
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  2. Continuing by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Continuing in their quest to copy everything Google does? Even Paul Thurrott, the infamous Windows guy, is making snide remarks.

    Seriously. Microsoft would NEVER be doing this if Google didn't exist and hadn't been doing it.

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