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Microsoft joins book search plan

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Microsoft has joined a Yahoo-backed effort to digitise the world's books and other works to make them searchable and accessible to anyone online.

The software giant said it would work with the Open Content Alliance (OCA), set up by the Internet Archive, to initially put 150,000 works online.

[Ed. Somewhat ironic in the light of recent events in Massachusetts.]

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