"Internet search giant Yahoo, along with several universities and two European archives, say they intend to make books available on the Internet later this year. The entities, known collectively as the OCA (Open Content Alliance), represent how major search engines like Google, which has a similar project called Google Print, now emphasize the quantity of search results, rather than the size of the information available for searching," reports eWeek.
The OCA says that by year's end, it will make its first collection of books available through a specially designed search engine available at www.opencontentalliance.org, and perhaps later through the general Yahoo search portal.
The first books will be from the University of California. O'Reilly Media, a publisher of technology books, and two archives in Europe, the National Archive in Britain and the European Archive, will also open up their collections, but haven't yet decided what materials to make available.
Comment: Looks like Yahoo could benefit from Google's mis-steps with Google Print....
