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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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  3. TripMaster Monkey not modded up?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Holy shit! A TMM post that his mindless, zombie fans haven't modded up just because it's a TMM post?! Dude, where are your TMM Karma Whore Groupie(TM) members? Why haven't they modded up your blessed post by now? Hell, by now you should be able to post "Hello, world!" and get an instant +5 insightful with all of the groupie mods that follow you around. Where are your followers, man!? Oh, the must still be exhausted from your last post which wore them out from their massive orgasms when they modded the post up just because it was a post from you. Oh, I know the real reason! It's because you didn't use one of those fucking anime smiles that seems to make girls' reaction to the Beatles back in the 1960s pale by comparison. OH MY GOD! HE USED AN ANIME SMILE! I MIGHT FAINT! OH BUT I HAVE TO GIVE HIM A +1 INSIGHTFUL BEFORE I DO! OOOHHHhhh...Trippy...