News - Microsoft, Amazon and Yahoo! gang up on Google

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The ramifications of Google?s settlement with US authors and publishers for Google Books continue.

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Surely another example of everyone else playing catchup (and failing) after Google does the innovating.

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Originally Posted by stavroshamster

Surely another example of everyone else playing catchup (and failing) after Google does the innovating.

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I think you're right.

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Originally Posted by stavroshamster

Surely another example of everyone else playing catchup (and failing) after Google does the innovating.

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Thats not quite right

This is for people wanting to get some compensation for out of print material they own the rights for. And then there is the issue of a Monopoly.... something MS know painfully well how much the EU comission enjoys handing out fines willy nilly for a monopoly for the slightest thing, maybe Google should know also.