Microsoft Discontinues Book Search Service
Books and scholarly publications will continue to be integrated into Microsoft's Search results, but not through separate indexes.
Microsoft implies that the reason it closes the sites is because of a new strategy. The company says it believes the next
generation of search is about the development of an underlying,
sustainable business model for the search engine, consumer, and content
partner. The new strategy focusses on verticals with high commercial intent, such as travel, and
offer users cash back on their purchases from our advertisers. With
Live Search Books and Live Search Academic, Microsoft digitized 750,000 books
and indexed 80 million journal articles. The company thinks that the best way for a search engine to make book content
available will be by crawling content repositories created by book
publishers and libraries.
However, rumours indicate that Microsoft stopped the service because the was not enough (potential) revenue.
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