Yahoo! breathing down Google's neck with book indexing and blog search
Yahoo! never sleeps. They've announced a partnership with the Internet Archive on the Open Content Alliance which will scan and index printed materials a la Google Print. They've put a bit of a twist on it, though, by making the program opt-in (unlike Google's opt-out strategy which got it—justly or otherwise—sued by the Authors' Guild) and making it open to any search engine. Brad Hill's commentary on the subject is, as usual, insightful.And in a wholly unsurprising news, Business Week's Stephen Baker is reporting that early next week Yahoo! is going to announce its own blog search offering, hot on the heels of Google's own functional-but-uninspiring Blog Search debut last month.
Via the Unofficial Yahoo! Weblog and the Social Software Weblog.
