4/13/2006

Academic Search Service

MICROSOFT DEBUTS ACADEMIC SEARCH SERVICE
Microsoft has introduced a new service called Windows Live Academic
Search to compete directly with Google's similar service, Google
Scholar. Danielle Tiedt, general manager of content acquisition for
Microsoft, noted that the academic search market exceeds the market for
nonacademic users by a factor of six, and some analysts have predicted
that the academic search market will grow to $10 billion by 2010.
Microsoft's new service was launched with limited content--only
resources from computer science, electrical engineering, and physics
are included because these fields provide "the most highly structured
metadata," according to Tiedt. Microsoft has partnered with a number of
leading academic organizations and publishers and plans to add to the
content included in the service. Tiedt also said the new service fits
with Microsoft's efforts to cultivate relationships with academics
generally.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 12 April 2006 (sub. req'd)
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4/10/2006

The TECH Center, Temple University

Brilliant!

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College's 'learning studios' are classrooms of future

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Five Things You Didn't Know About Apple's iPod

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How Apple's Boot Camp (XP on Mac) works

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