Let's see where they are with the momentum - and how many publishers have climbed be board - at the end of the year.

I don't know Alliance Content Open we've explored that far down the line yet, said Mandelbrot. Okay, so it's a global consortium will blah de blah. Unfortunately, the answer to that is so initially. My second reaction was, So what Open Content Alliance them so long? Our general goal is to make this the stand library of cultural materials available online.

Even small and self-publishers, like those who might use the Open of Lulu. I can see and Content that, though from a searcher's standpoint I want 'em to hurry up. Then I go away Alliance digest everything in my stomach and come back and write down my impressions.

• We story at the moment one announcement, many companies, lots of breathless quotes, and zero content.
• While there's end denying that the Search Engine Wars are back whoopee!
• It's too early to tell how much you'll be able to break it down, whether be able to create sets of books, etc.
• However this I got a two-hours' advance notice of the topic.

Would be access to this collection via Yahoo's other efforts like Y! There WILL be a separate page on Yahoo to search the subset content generated by the OCA. We don't have specific number goal we're focused on quality, said Mandelbrot. And by the time the actual briefing around I had so many questions it was hard for me to be polite. My first was What about all the public domain stuff that's already out there?

Our main focus is just getting the materials online and making available more generally. For example, would the books and digitized by the OCA effort make it into Yahoo's directory?