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

    The ramifications of Google?s settlement with US authors and publishers for Google Books continue.
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    Re: News - Microsoft, Amazon and Yahoo! gang up on Google

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

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

    Quote Originally Posted by stavroshamster View Post
    Surely another example of everyone else playing catchup (and failing) after Google does the innovating.
    I think you're right.

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

    Quote Originally Posted by stavroshamster View Post
    Surely another example of everyone else playing catchup (and failing) after Google does the innovating.
    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.
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