Several new enhancements of note from the Search team: Tomorrow we’re releasing the beta version of Live Search Books (http://books.live.com). Check out the user experience: very clean! With this initial release we’ve focused on making the reading experience as natural as possible.
The U.S. beta launch of Live Search Books is a big step forward in advancing the way people discover information through the integration of content that has been “off-limits” to the traditional Search experience, until now. This release makes tens of thousands of out-of-copyright books available from our library scanning initiative, including books from the University of California, the University of Toronto, and the British Library. In addition, we are announcing new partnerships with the New York Public Library and the American Museum of Veterinary Medicine. The Live Search team is working hard to offer the most relevant Search service to you, our customers. There is a lot of trusted and authoritative content that can only be found in books today. With this beta launch we’ve taken our first steps toward making that content discoverable and easy to read.
The team is also taking this opportunity to announce an update to the beta of Live Search Academic (http://academic.live.com). We’re adding millions of new articles—primarily bio-medical content. Live Search Academic now indexes thousands of academic journals in the computer science, engineering, physics, and bio-medical fields. We’re also now indexing theses, dissertations, and books within these disciplines.
These are just a few of the most recent examples of our efforts to deliver the most relevant content available; whether it is in a book, in an academic journal or on the web. A feedback link will be available shortly; in the meantime, please give us feedback via this blog.
--- Cliff Guren, Director of Publisher Evangelism
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The Live Search Blog announced that Microsoft released a beta named Live Search Books this morning. Plus they enhanced Live Search Academic by adding millions of new articles, plus indexing theses, dissertations, and books within these disciplines...
Hi, I just tried it out in Firefox 2 on Mac OSX. The initial search box loads fine but a book search returns no results.
Web search works fine, however.
Here is a sample book search query that returns no results for me in either Firefox 2 or Safari:
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=test&scope=books
Does this work better on IE7, or am I doing something wrong?
Cheers,
-DeWitt
Live Search's WebLog Live Search Books Beta Release 아직 영문 서비스입니다만, books.live.com으로 액세스할 수 있습니다. 저작권
It didn't work in Firefox 2.0 for me either. IE did work, so I guess it just doesn't work with some browsers.
I just tried again and it now works in Firefox 2. It looks really nice. Well done, our friends in Redmond!
Today Microsoft released a beta of Live Search Books, its competitor to Google Book Search. The content inside Live Search Books isn't that modern - it basically only includes out-of-copyright books. As the Live Search team noted, this release...
Well done. These both look like great services.
I have emailed a link to this blog post to the librarians running the "Finding academic content on the internet" tutorials at <abbr title="My Place Of Work">MPOW</abbr>.
Oh, and if you want some ideas on what to improve I'd put a search box nearer the middle of the http://academic.live.com start page, and possibly even have a button called "search". You would be surprised how many people wouldn't think to click a magnifying glass, or shock horror actually think to press enter...
The reason I say all this is when I went to the page for the first time it certainly took me a second to find where to type in my search.
And one more thing...
(I hope you like getting all this feedback)
The survey linked to from the academic.live.com page tells me the survey that the survey is no longer running.
I've tried to query 'history', 'art', 'science', with no results returned? Tried in in Firefox and IE7.
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http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=&scope=books#q=google
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It does happen to serve another purpose - that it probably was NOT intended to.
Imagine tracing the history of a well known copyrighted trademark.
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