Microsoft Releases Book Search

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft is releasing its Live Search Books, a rival to Google's Book Search, in test, or beta, version in the US. The digital archive will include books from the collections of the British Library, the University of California and the University of Toronto. Books from three other institutions will be added in January 2007. All the books currently included in the project will be non-copyrighted but later it will also add copyrighted work that publishers have given permission to include in the project."

Comments

Duplication of Effort

[Nom du Keyboard]

What a wasted duplication of effort. I'd rather have both companies get together and make one good product for all of us to use at either half the cost, or twice the breadth and quality.

Oh, for Pete's Sake

[bill_mcgonigle]

Please Microsoft, do something new that's not copying Apple and Google.

Let's all now go look at Google Labs and predict the next 12 Microsoft products....