Microsoft Shuts Down Book, Academic Searches (MSFT)

Vasanth Sridharan | May 23, 2008 3:22 PM

Microsoft is ending its Live Book Search, which had digitized 750,000 books, and Live Academic Search, which had indexed 80 million journals, because the company wants to concentrate on other aspects of search, specifically travel and the Live Search Cashback program.

Their chief rival in this space is, of course, Google (GOOG), which has Google Book Search and Google Scholar. Last year, Google said it had digitized 1 million books, which means it's probably way ahead of Microsoft by now.

Since Google's book search is bigger and more well known, shuttering Live Book Search is a smart idea. Digitizing books is time consuming, and if Microsoft really wants to beat Google in search, it's going to have to cut some losses and concentrate on a few key areas -- or maybe a winning gimmick -- which is what it seems to be doing.

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Suckers! They followed Google into the wildnerness on this really really dumb idea.

mjw149 said:

May. 23, 9:19 PM

Wait a minute. They remove a major feature from search, and you applaud them? This is a dumb move. How can you be the best search with less features.

Let's not forget this is the same company with enough money and programmers for several media-playing programs, multiple internet brands, multiple email brands, multiple portals, a music player and a videogame machine. Removing a feature from search the SAME WEEK you try to tell everyone how important search is seems a little silly.

This is what happens when you're not focused, you have no vision. Without a vision, you change your mind. When you're willing to change your mind, then you only try stuff. When you only try stuff, you only invest enough to fail.

You keep thinking Hail Mary instead of 3 yards and a cloud of dust, and that's when the other team runs one back for a touchdown. You know what's been proven to work in search? Book search. You know what's been proven to fail? Cash back programs.

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