Microsoft closes the book on online library

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Microsoft said Friday it is ending its quest to create an online library of the world's books as the technology titan revamps its strategy to battle Internet search king Google.

Live Search Books and Live Search Academics projects are being cancelled and the websites will be taken down next week, Microsoft senior vice president of search Satya Nadella said in an online posting.

"This also means that we are winding down our digitization initiatives, including our library scanning and our in-copyright book programs," Nadella wrote.

"Based on our experience, we foresee 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."

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