Challenging Google, Microsoft Unveils a Search Tool for Scholarly Articles

Microsoft introduced a new search tool last week to help people find scholarly articles online. The service, which includes journal articles from prominent academic societies and publishers, puts Microsoft in direct competition with Google, which offers a similar service called Google Scholar.

The new free search tool, which should work on most Web browsers, is called Windows Live Academic Search (http://academic.live.com). For now, it includes eight million articles from only a few

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