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May. 23, 2008 at 11:21am by Danny Sullivan
Microsoft Burns Book Search - Lacks "High Consumer Intent"
Wow. Earlier this month, I heard Microsoft execs highlight Live Search Books as a key advance they were doing in search. Today, news that the site along with Live Search Academic are being closed next week, since they lack the "high consumer intent" that Microsoft is now focusing on. So...
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Mar. 29, 2007 at 2:06am by Bill Slawski
Microsoft On Poprank And Indexing Objects For Vertical & Web Search
A new paper from Microsoft Research, Web Object Retrieval (pdf), discusses an approach towards Web indexing that changes focus from page level, to that of indexing objects found upon pages. OK, so that does that mean? It's easiest to show you first, rather than tell you......
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Mar. 6, 2007 at 10:11am by Danny Sullivan
Dissecting Microsoft Slams At Google As Copyright Infringer
Last October, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer gave us a taste of how Microsoft was going to position Google as a copyright leech. Today, Microsoft launched a full-out assault on the company. Google deserves some of this, no doubt. But the idea as Microsoft as some altruistic copyright savior deserves some critical...
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Dec. 6, 2006 at 8:29am by Barry Schwartz
Microsoft Releases Live Search Books Beta
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....
