[Web4lib] Microsoft Book Search Misfire

[Drew, Bill]

I just did a search using Firefox 2.0.  I got it to work without any
problems.  I no longer have Opera installed so I can't test that.  I
searched for the topic time and got the floowing results:
A Time to Weep
	A Time to Weep
by Robert Hunter Williams * 1917 * 14 pages
Subject: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
The states man, the soldier, the minister, the private citizen, gather
around the remains of our President, at the Capital at this time, and
the churches all over the land, are filled with mourning ...

Idle-time Rime
	Idle-time Rime
by Herbert Flansburgh * 1916 * 52 pages
Loss Farewell! said I to my conscience Farewell to you now for aye,
You've goaded me long with my sinning, And now I shall cast you away.
Time was when you held me in bondage Time was when you ruled ...

Seed Time and Harvest
	Seed Time and Harvest
by Lucius Manlius Sargent * 1838 * 28 pages
Subject: Temperance Fiction
own accord, what had induced me to wish to leave home, and go to sea. I
hesitated, for some time; but, as he urged me to speak out, and; at the
same time, appeared to be much calmer than usual Father ... 

What is strange to me is that it only gives you 3 titles in any search.
I was able to download a book using Firefox as well.

Bill Drew

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Roy Tennant
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 1:17 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] Microsoft Book Search Misfire

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