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Windows Live Academic Search
Techtree News Staff, Apr 17, 2006 1358 hrs ISTLast week Microsoft released the beta version of Windows Live Academic Search, that allows users to search the Web for academic papers, etc.
Last week Microsoft released the beta version of Windows Live Academic Search, that allows users to search the Web for academic papers, articles from journals, as also notes and slides from a wide range of conferences. Windows Live Academic Search is said to have deals with several institutions for indexing content from their journals.
Consumers are required to subscribe in order to be able to use the service, but Microsoft says it will all the same prove useful to students, researchers, journalists and librarians.
Intended to replace MSN Search eventually, Windows Live Search according to Microsoft, boasts of certain features lacking even in Google Search including the ability to mouse over a result to see an abstract, use of authors' names as hot links to their other published work, etc.
Windows Live Search incorporates features such as a slider capable of showing more or less text for each result; infinite scroll for results; image thumbnails that are scalable; and easy search plus customization.
The slider control allows users to choose from among six thumbnail size images; also while hovering over an image, the image enlarges slightly and relevant information including URL, size and resolution appears below it. Windows Live Search lets users send e-mail to Microsoft as also tag images as inappropriate, copyrighted, or irrelevant.
The service also features search macro that allows users to search a group of Web sites with a single click, post logging-into a Microsoft Passport Network Account. Once logged in a search macro can be quickly created, which thereafter appears on the right side of Windows Live Search toolbar in the form of a button.
As regards the field of search, Microsoft reportedly needs to do some major catching-up. In February Google's share of Internet search queries rose to over 42 percent, Yahoo's share fell to 27.6 percent, and MSN Search's share nose-dived to 13.5 percent.
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Consumers are required to subscribe in order to be able to use the service, but Microsoft says it will all the same prove useful to students, researchers, journalists and librarians.
Intended to replace MSN Search eventually, Windows Live Search according to Microsoft, boasts of certain features lacking even in Google Search including the ability to mouse over a result to see an abstract, use of authors' names as hot links to their other published work, etc.
Windows Live Search incorporates features such as a slider capable of showing more or less text for each result; infinite scroll for results; image thumbnails that are scalable; and easy search plus customization.
The slider control allows users to choose from among six thumbnail size images; also while hovering over an image, the image enlarges slightly and relevant information including URL, size and resolution appears below it. Windows Live Search lets users send e-mail to Microsoft as also tag images as inappropriate, copyrighted, or irrelevant.
The service also features search macro that allows users to search a group of Web sites with a single click, post logging-into a Microsoft Passport Network Account. Once logged in a search macro can be quickly created, which thereafter appears on the right side of Windows Live Search toolbar in the form of a button.
As regards the field of search, Microsoft reportedly needs to do some major catching-up. In February Google's share of Internet search queries rose to over 42 percent, Yahoo's share fell to 27.6 percent, and MSN Search's share nose-dived to 13.5 percent.
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