BBC News that Microsoft have launched the Beta release of their Book Search service, currently including book collections from the British Library, the University of California, and the University of Toronto. 3 other institutions are coming in 2007 as well.
All scanned books currently are non-copyrighted, but later on copyrighted material will be added, Microsoft says, and will also be incorporated into the general Live.com Search engine. Looking at the new Live Beta service head to head with Google, I could easily say right now Google search time is much faster and stable. Very often I do encounter Live keeps searching forever, or at least longer than I can tolerate! The dynamic load content on scroll down idea from Live does not seem to be convenient much, at least not with my 256 kbps connection. Browsing the book has been also made easier in Google Book Search, where you can use hot keys to flip pages, and you can open two pages in parallel. Page loading also in Google is faster, however, very often if I do flip too many pages in Google the browser crashes.
Regardless of all the differences now however, the favor will be to the side who has the better book collections, and who succeeds to deal carefully with the copyrights issues involved in it.
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