more on Microsoft book search
May. 23rd, 2008 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yesthattomMicrosoft really couldn’t figure out how to make Book Search profitable. In my last post I jokingly wrote, “maybe they should have read The Long Tail”.
On a whim I searched for that book on both services.
Microsoft doesn’t list it: http://search.live.com/books#q=the%20long%20tail
Google lists it, even though it doesn’t have the individual pages scanned (that would be against the copyright): http://books.google.com/books?q=the+long+tail
However, when you do the Google search, they say they don’t have it and offer links to help you buy it.
Isn’t that the point of The Long Tail book?
OMG! Microsoft really didn’t read The Long Tail!
On a whim I searched for that book on both services.
Microsoft doesn’t list it: http://search.live.com/books#q=the%20long%20tail
Google lists it, even though it doesn’t have the individual pages scanned (that would be against the copyright): http://books.google.com/books?q=the+long+tail
However, when you do the Google search, they say they don’t have it and offer links to help you buy it.
Isn’t that the point of The Long Tail book?
OMG! Microsoft really didn’t read The Long Tail!
