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Live.com – Microsoft’s search engine will shut down Live Search Books and Live Search Academic. The news came via Satya Nadella, a Senior VP of Search. He wrote on in a blog post that “Based on our experience, we foresee that the best way for a search engine to make book content available will be by crawling [...]

In its pursuit for providing online content that is authentic and searchable by all Google the search giant will be digitising atleast 8,00,000 books that are lying at the Mysore University in India. These books include India’s first political treatise the ’Arthasastra’ written in the 4th century BC by Kautilya and many such other priceless collections. [...]

           One of the most controversial project of Google is GBS or Google Book Search. Launched in early 2004, this project is still in its beta version. If we think Google was the first one to innovate the idea of digitalizing books for public domain, then we are worng. The first such project started in [...]