Microsoft opens book on publications search
eWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft's MSN Internet search group detailed its new effort to catalog books, academic materials, periodicals and other print resources on Tuesday.
Dubbed as MSN Book Search, the effort is part of the company's push to expand its search capabilities to find more of the information people seek when they come to its site and launch Web queries.
Microsoft officials estimated that users currently find the exact information they are seeking on MSN's search engine only 50 percent of the time, and said that addition of the publications to its index should help the company improve on that figure.