Learning from the Lessons of Google Books?

[Shapiro, Fred]

Yes, the Live.com book search is the Beta site for this project.

Fred Shapiro


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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Grant Barrett [gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG]
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 10:06 PM
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Subject: Re: Learning from the Lessons of Google Books?

On Oct 17, 2007, at 21:45, Shapiro, Fred wrote:

> For those like myself, who are dismayed by the shortcomings of
> Google Books, some hope may be in sight.  A second coalition of
> great libraries (Yale, Cornell, University of California, British
> Library, New York Public Library, University of Toronto) is working
> with Microsoft to assemble a second very large collection of
> digitized books.  Perhaps the Microsoft coalition will learn from
> the mistakes of the Google coalition.

Is it the same as the Live.com book search?

http://books.live.com

Grant Barrett
Double-Tongued Dictionary
http://www.doubletongued.org/
editor at doubletongued.org

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