Microsoft Book Search
December 7, 2006
Microsoft has launched its book search product. My initial reaction is mixed, though I haven’t spent much time with it yet. On the one hand, it doesn’t seem to work in Firefox (get used to seeing the word “Loading…” if you try to launch it) and it is really slow to start, even in Internet Explorer 6 (I haven’t tried it in Explorer 7 yet). On the other hand, the interface for browsing a found book is much more attractive than Google Book Search and the scanning, at a quick glance, seems to be of a signficantly better quality than that on Google Books. Of course, beating Google Books on scanning quality is not exactly difficult.
Posted by Bill Trippe at December 7, 2006 8:50 PM
