Posted on Tuesday, October 04 2005 @ 10:39 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Yahoo has announced a new project similar to Google's controversial library-digitization project:
Yahoo is working with the Internet Archive, the University of California and others on a project to digitize books in archives around the world and make them searchable through any Web search engine and downloadable for free, the group was set to announce Monday.
"If we get this right so enough people want to participate in droves, we can have an interoperable, circulating library that is not only searchable on Yahoo but other search engines and downloadable on handhelds, even iPods," said Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive.
More info over at
ZDNet
