ICT SupportMicrosoft to Offer Online Book-Content Searches.

Microsoft to Offer Online Book-Content Searches. Katie Hafner. NY Times. Online October 2005. Microsoft plans to join the Open Content Alliance, a group that will make the contents of millions of books available for online search. Unlike Google, which has been engaged in a similar indexing project over the past year, the Open Alliance will ask copyright-holders for their permission before digitizing material. … The group is working to digitize the contents of millions of books and put them on the Internet, with full text accessible to anyone, while respecting the rights of copyright holders. … In aligning with the Open Content Alliance, MSN is joining forces with its archrival Yahoo, which announced its support of the project this month.