Europeana, competition for Google Book Search? (Pandia)

Europeana has been marketed as Europe's move to counter Google Book Search, thought by some eurocrats to have an American or Anglo-centric bias. When the prototype was launched on 20 November it crashed due to 10 million hits an hour. What will you find when the site re-opens and will it be worth the wait?

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