Amazon Light, a very cool new use of the Amazon Web Services recently introduced (and clearly inspired by Google's Web API) provides a cleaner-than-Amazon interface to the same data. However, they recently report that they've been asked to cease-and-desist by Google's lawyers. The site was very much like Google's (screenshot) but it was clearly in good taste. I'm not sure why Google is so testy about it. Is a books.google.com coming soon?
I wonder if they'll go after Whois Report next.
[Thanks to Kevin Burton for alerting me to this.]
Posted by Aaron Swartz on July 19, 2002 07:33 AM
