{"id":863,"date":"2006-12-14T16:41:45","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T16:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=863"},"modified":"2006-12-14T16:41:45","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T16:41:45","slug":"microsoft_launches_live_search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/14\/microsoft_launches_live_search\/","title":{"rendered":"microsoft launches live search books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows <a href=\"http:\/\/search.live.com\/results.aspx?q=&#038;scope=books\">Live Search Books<\/a>, Microsoft&#8217;s answer to Google Book Search, is officially up and running and looks and feels pretty much the same as its nemesis. Being a Microsoft product, the interface is clunkier,  and they have a bit of catching up to do in terms of navigation and search options. The one substantive difference is that Live Search is mostly limited to out-of-copyright books &#8212; i.e. pre-1923<strike>1927<\/strike> editions of public domain works. So the little they do have in there is fully accessible, with PDFs available for download. Like Google&#8217;s public domain books, however, the scans are of pretty poor quality, <strike>and not searchable<\/strike>. <em>Readers point out that Microsoft, unlike Google, does in fact include a layer of low-quality but entirely searchable OCR text in its public domain downloads.<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/search.live.com\/results.aspx?q=&#038;scope=books#q=montaigne%20%22education%20of%20children%22&#038;bookid=b5033c5da7a772fa&#038;p=37\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"windows live books.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/windows%20live%20books.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Live Search Books, Microsoft&#8217;s answer to Google Book Search, is officially up and running and looks and feels pretty much the same as its nemesis. Being a Microsoft product, the interface is clunkier, and they have a bit of catching up to do in terms of navigation and search options. The one substantive difference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,395,498,755,759,1089,1541,1676],"tags":[2233],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-copyright","category-digitization","category-google","category-google_book_search","category-live_search_books","category-publicdomain","category-search","tag-books-search-live_search_books-google_book_search-google-digitization-copyright-publicdomain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}