Internet Archive Challenges Google 115
richards1052 writes "The Internet Archive, whose main claim to fame is the Wayback Machine, designed to archive the internet's web history, has created a new project: the Open Content Alliance. It's purpose is to open the nation's library collections to universal web search.
A number of major library systems, including the Boston Public Library and Smithsonian, have refused to sign up with competing ventures by Microsoft and Google because they do not provide for universal access to digitized books. These commercial ventures prohibit books being accessed by competing search engines.
So far, 80 libraries and research institutions have signed on with Open Content Alliance. They must pay for the scanning of their books while Google and Microsoft offset that cost for their participating institutions."
Re:Society lost (Score:5, Funny)
I don't expect the Spanish Inquisition...
Nobody... (Score:5, Funny)
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.....
(Can't believe I'm the first one to respond with that. Of course by now I'm probably not. )
Nobody... (Score:3, Funny)
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
(I couldn't bear to leave you hanging.)
Re:Society lost (Score:5, Funny)
Not true, ones have slightly more mass than zeros, so they weight a tad more than zeroing out that section of your drive!
Note, my source is Dilbert. But it was right about smaller font sizes leading to smaller .doc sizes as well.
Re:Scan My Books (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Project Gutenberg... (Score:2, Funny)