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| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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| Preview release | Beta / April 11, 2006 |
| Type | Search engine |
| Website | http://academic.live.com |
Live Search Academic was aWeb search engine forscholarly literature that existed from April 2006 to May 2008; it was part ofMicrosoft'sLive Search group of services. It was similar toGoogle Scholar, but rather than crawling the Internet for academic content, search results came directly from trusted sources, such as publishers of academic journals.[citation needed] Users were required to log in to access the service.
Live Search Academic was known as Windows Live Academic Search when the beta version was officially launched on April 11, 2006.[1] The name had changed to Live Search Academic by December 6, 2006, when Microsoft announced the addition of millions of new articles, mainly inbiomedicine.[2]
On May 23, 2008, Microsoft announced the end of Live Search Academic andLive Search Books, both sites to be closed, with their results integrated into regular Search. The project scanned 750,000 books and indexed 80 million journal articles.[3][4]
Live Search Academic indexed journal articles, conference proceedings, books, theses and dissertations from the following fields:
In addition to the normal search capabilities, Live Search Academic also featured:
Microsoft said it had digitized 750,000 books and indexed 80 million journal articles.
