[Web4lib] Microsoft releasing book search in beta

[Andrew Hankinson]

Tangentially related, I noticed Windows Live QnA when I was checking out the
book search.  I had searched for 'Origin of the Species" (just to make sure
I got an out-of-copyright book)  In QnA it re-did my search and returned a
series of questions that were related, but in the sidebar it listed the
following 'related tags'

Technology
Computers
Windows Live
microsoft
Windows

Hmmm..... I wonder if that's a default set of tags for untagged material.
If so, that's somewhat annoying.

-A


On 12/8/06, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
>
> B.G. Sloan wrote:
>
> > "Microsoft is releasing Live Search Books, its competitor to
> > Google Book Search, in beta on Wednesday."
>
> So I went in there and, to try it out from a Swedish perspective,
> I typed "Strindberg" in the search box.  And the first title that
> came up--oh, the irony of finding this with Microsoft's aid--was
> anarchist Emma Goldman's "The social significance of the modern
> drama" (1914).  Yes, Microsoft is helping me learn how to
> overthrow government and capitalist society with the help of
> books!
>
> The PDF download link leads directly to the Internet Archive and
> this was the only bookmarkable link I could find.  I don't know
> how to link to the book on Microsoft's website.
>
> This book is available as proofread e-text from several places
> already.  The OCR text in the PDF from the Internet Archive is not
> proofread.  Nonetheless, since the book does open with
> Scandinavian writers August Strindberg and Henrik Ibsen, I decided
> to convert it to Project Runeberg's format where it can now be
> proofread once more.
>
> You can find it at http://runeberg.org/sigdrama/
>
> This is not the first time Project Runeberg re-releases a book
> from the Internet Archive, but it's the first time we attribute
> Microsoft for the scanning.
>
> (There is a misleading copyright mark on that page, which I should
> find a way to remove.  The copyright mark is automatically
> inserted when an author has been dead for less than 70 years and
> Emma Goldman died in 1940.  But since her work was published in
> the USA before 1920, the work is surely in the public domain.)
>
>
> --
> Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
> Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/
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