Surprise alliance for MSN book search prompts concern

Seattle Post Intelligencer says Microsoft’s move to work with the Open Content Alliance might seem odd. But some in the technology industry see it as an example of the lengths to which Microsoft will go in its rivalry with Google.
The Open Content Alliance arose from discussions between Yahoo! and the Internet Archive, but was planned as something that would be “hospitable to other companies” that agree with the group’s underlying principles, said Rick Prelinger, administrator of the alliance and board president of the Internet Archive.

November 1, 2005 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. Curmudgeony says:
    November 2, 2005 at 12:26 am

    Interesting subject
    from the being-hijacked-by-Microsoft-as-a-way-of-underminin g-Google dept.

    Funny, I would have figured this from the dogs-and-cats-living-together dept.

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