tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post116540870734922282..comments2024-03-18T02:14:57.204-07:00Comments on Google Operating System: Microsoft's Book Search Brings Something NewAlex Chituhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02618542750965508582noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-1165598102322121332006-12-08T09:15:00.000-08:002006-12-08T09:15:00.000-08:00I applaud Mcirosoft's (and google's) efforts to di...I applaud Mcirosoft's (and google's) efforts to digitize books, libraries, archives and the like. Unfortunately, Microsoft's complete lack of any kind of meaningful index for the books being digitized COMPLETELY NEGATES THE VALUE OF THIS PROJECT!<BR/><BR/>Take a closer look. There is no way to easily BROWSE what has been digitized. Unless you know the name of a specific book to search for (and it must have its copyright expired), you have nothing to input into the search box. If you merely put an asterisk in the book search box, you get a result that says "* 1-4 of thousands." Yikes. Thousands.<BR/><BR/>How about some kind of a catalogue or table of contents to what is available to take a look at? Now THAT would be interesting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com