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Microsoft Online Library Challenges Google Books
posted Monday, 11 December 2006
Microsoft launched an online library on Thursday in a move that pits the world's biggest software company against Google,s controversial project to digitise the world's books.
Microsoft said the US test version of Live Search Books featured tens of thousands of out-of-copyright books, including works held by the British library and major universities in the United States and Canada.
Live Search Books is advancing the way people search online by digitising and indexing information from the world’s printed materials, a Microsoft spokesman said. There is a lot of trusted and authoritative content that can only be found in books today. We want to make that content accessible to people who are using Live Search.
Visit Live Search Books a: http://books.live.com
Microsoft said the US test version of Live Search Books featured tens of thousands of out-of-copyright books, including works held by the British library and major universities in the United States and Canada.
Live Search Books is advancing the way people search online by digitising and indexing information from the world’s printed materials, a Microsoft spokesman said. There is a lot of trusted and authoritative content that can only be found in books today. We want to make that content accessible to people who are using Live Search.
Visit Live Search Books a: http://books.live.com
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