[Web4lib] Microsoft Book Search Misfire

Roy Tennant roy.tennant at ucop.edu
Wed Dec 6 14:14:21 EST 2006


Sorry, it turns out it wasn't a platform issue at all, the site itself was
apparently not working. It appears to be working now. That's what I get for
jumping to conclusions...
Roy
 
> --- Roy Tennant <roy.tennant at ucop.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I might have a few comments on the new Microsoft Book search service
>> <http://books.live.com/> if I could actually see it. In a move that smacks
>> completely of Microsoft, the site is completely unusable on anything other
>> than Windows. I've tried Firefox, Opera, Safari, and even the very ancient
>> Internet Explorer on the Mac and none of them would display any search
>> results and one of them (notably MSIE, interestingly enough) didn't even get
>> far enough to _enter_ a search. I would say "unbelievable" if it weren't,
>> sadly enough, quite believable.
>> Roy
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