404 for Microsoft's latest decision
 

In the middle of a gritty search war, did Microsoft's Steve Ballmer just commit the mother of all mistakes?

I've been wondering about that ever since Microsoft (http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/arc...down.aspx)said it would close its Search Books and Live Search Academic projects, thus ceding the field of book digitization to Google. (While both Live Search Books (http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=&scope=books) and Live Search Academic (http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=&scope=books) are going dark, both Google's Book Search (http://books.google.com/support/) and Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/)continue to operate.)
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*Source: Coop's Corner (http://news.cnet.com/8301-10787_3-99...tag=nefd.top)*

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