Imagine Google Yahoo working together

Just like Google, Yahoo plans to begin scanning books and collecting other media content in an online database rivaling Google efforts.


Imagine a world where these two search engine rivals work together in the book scanning project. If Yahoo! and Google sit together and divide the scanning work between them, the world will get to see gigs and gigs of content hidden inside library shelves in just half of the time.


The Yahoo-backed consortium poses a challenge to Google which has been working for the past year on an ambitious project to scan the contents of five of the world’s great academic libraries to make the books freely available online — unless copyright holders first object.


According to this report, consumers will be able to search the contents of the Open Content Alliance’s database and download the entire content of any work, such as a scanned copy of a book.