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Microsoft Releases Book Search

Posted by samzenpus on from the bill-can-find-that-book dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft is releasing its Live Search Books, a rival to Google's Book Search, in test, or beta, version in the US. The digital archive will include books from the collections of the British Library, the University of California and the University of Toronto. Books from three other institutions will be added in January 2007. All the books currently included in the project will be non-copyrighted but later it will also add copyrighted work that publishers have given permission to include in the project."

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  1. Publisher info by AugustZephyr · · Score: 5, Informative

    Publisher information for adding content to Windows Live Book Search through the Windows Live Book Search Publisher Program can be found here: http://publisher.live.com/

    1. Re:Publisher info by stoolpigeon · · Score: 4, Informative

      and to search books http://books.live.com/
       
      i've never used the live search before - so maybe this is obvious to people who do, but it is pretty cool. just by searching on some generic words i'm getting back some very interesting books.

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  2. Re:Wasn't this expected? by rucs_hack · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is, and always has been, microsofts MO, it's nothing new.

    They never move into a market unless someone is already there.

    It's the same mentality as long distance runners not taking the lead/avoiding it until the race is almost over. let the other runners have all the problems keeping ahead, then move in at the end.

    It doesn't seem to be working against google though, interesting that.

    And we'll see a 'Microsoft officially aproved' Linux real soon, called SUSE SP1.

  3. The thinnest of books by YourMoneyOrYourDuck · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder if "Microsoft Innovation - Volumes 1-12" are going to make it into the index

  4. Oh, for Pete's Sake by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Please Microsoft, do something new that's not copying Apple and Google.

    Let's all now go look at Google Labs and predict the next 12 Microsoft products....

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