June 6, 2008
Microsoft's Book-Search Project Has a Surprise Ending
It is hard to imagine a Microsoft venture falling under the weight of a competitor. But that's the post-mortem offered by many academic librarians as they ponder the software giant's recent and sudden announcement that it is shutting down its book-digitization project. The librarians' conclusion: Google did it.
Microsoft quietly revealed in May that it would end the program and the accompanying search software, Live Search Books and Live Search Academic. The project made complete book
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