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Article: Live Search.(search engine update)(Brief article)
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- September 1, 2008
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Live Search has abandoned its Academic and Book Search efforts. Both are now offline. Microsoft says that books and scholarly publications will continue to appear in the web search results but not in separate databases. Microsoft has bought the natural language processing search engine startup PowerSet. Another recent Live Search initiative is to provide financial incentives for searching (www.searchandgive.com). You can support schools, health research, or charities--with Microsoft donating 1 cent per search. Sign up, choose a charity, and search via ...