Tag: BOOK-SEARCH

Last year Google and Microsoft spent a lot of time trying to one up one another in the area of book search. Both companies launched products that would let users search within the text of thousands of books and display results in a web browser. Some of the books were public domain while others were copyrighted works scanned either with the consent of the copyright holders or in some cases ...

Sure, Google and Microsoft may talk about ambitious plans to make the full text of every book available online for searching and reading. But the New York Times reports that some major research libraries aren't happy with the terms offered by Microsoft and Google. In the past, we'd heard a lot of complaints from book publishers who alleged that Google was violating their copyrights. But these ...