Microsoft Burns Book Search - Lacks “High Consumer Intent”
May 31st, 2008 by
Wow. Earlier this month, I
heard Microsoft
execs highlight
Live Search Books as a key advance they were doing in search. Today,
news that the site along with
Live Search
Academic are being closed next week, since they lack the "high consumer
intent" that Microsoft is now focusing on. So much for trying to seem like the
much-needed "good" alternative to Google. From Microsoft’s blog post:
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