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Microsoft, Amazon and Yahoo! join fight against Google

« Posted: August 23, 2009, 01:12:40 PM »

Microsoft, Amazon and Yahoo! join fight against Google

The three technology giants of Microsoft, Amazon and Yahoo! are to join the Open Book Alliance in their opposition of Google's Book Search service. The coalition is trying to stop Google's plans to create what could potentially be the biggest virtual library in the world. The Open Book Alliance is currently made up of various charities and libraries and is headed by the non-profit group Internet Archive, which is also the provider of web archive service Wayback Machine. They are opposing a deal agreed last year giving Google the rights to digitize and commercialize millions of books, Reuters report. The coalition argues that Google is "trying to monopolise the library system," according to the Internet Archive's founder Brewster Kahle. Read full story...

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