The link posted above is to a brief eWeek comment, at their "Google Watch" site. That page does have a link to the Google Shakespeare pages, where you can evaluate whether what they've done is worth anything.

A likely reason for the notice popping up at the watch site is the disclaimer, separately linked, to the blog site where a Google executive(?) indicates that they were unable to post "a few" (published versions of) Shakespeare works because of copyright questions.

Google has claimed the intent to post "everything there is about everything" in some of their announcements; but many people have predicted copyright/license problems for them with respect to those ambitions. They have, apparently, met a lot of resistance from some libraries who seem to not want their collections freely available.

This is just one-more-episode in the saga: of interest perhaps to some, and of no interest at all to many.

The Shakespeare site does have a couple of less-known (at least less quoted) works; but I haven't looked at versions. It's implied that each "work" is a single web page, which does permit easy text search within each play - (which is another thing I haven't verified as yet).

John