Microsoft starts online library in challenge to Google Books

0 Comments | AFP, December, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Microsoft launched an online library in a move that pits the world's biggest software company against Google's controversial project to digitize the world's books. Microsoft said the US test version of Live Search Books featured tens of thousands of out-of-copyright books, including works held by the British library and major universities in the United States and Canada.

"Live Search Books is advancing the way people search online by digitizing and indexing information from the world's printed materials," a Microsoft spokesman told AFP. "There is a lot of trusted and authoritative content that can only be found in books today. We want to make that content accessible to people who are using Live Search." A visit to Live Search Books at website...