{"id":551032,"date":"2006-12-08T06:31:41","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T06:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551032-microsoft-starts-online-library.html"},"modified":"2006-12-08T06:31:41","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T06:31:41","slug":"microsoft-starts-online-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551032-microsoft-starts-online-library.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft starts online library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Microsoft said the US test version of Live Search Books featured tens of thousands of out-of-copyright books, including works held by the British library and major universities in Toronto and California. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">A visit to Live Search Books at website <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/books.live.com\"><font size=\"2\">http:\/\/books.live.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> has revealed an uncluttered page with a box for seeking scanned works. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Searches by key words or author names quickly returned works such as the fourth century Taoist teachings of Lieh-tzu and &quot;The Count of Monte-Cristo&quot; by Alexandre Dumas that could be easily viewed page-by-page. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;With this initial release we&#8217;ve focused on making the reading experience as natural as possible,&quot; project director Cliff Guren wrote in a weblog entry posted on the website of Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Washington. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;The US beta launch of Live Search Books is a big step forward in advancing the way people discover information through the integration of content that has been off-limits to the traditional search experience, until now.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In August, Google restarted its Google Book Search project initiated in 2004 with the aim of scanning every literary work into digital format and making them available online. <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has launched an online library in a move that pitted the technology heavyweight against Google&#8217;s controversial project to digitise the world&#8217;s books. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}