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MSFT Live Search Books Adds Copyrighted Material

I’ve come to think of book search as Google’s specialty - there have been weeks in which the search engine giant made as many as two or three separate announcements about its various literature-related projects.  Yet Microsoft’s also in this game, and the Redmond-based company has just expanded its Live Search Books collection.

Does Live Book Search Beat Google?

Today marks the launch of MSN's Live Book Search, a beta offering aimed at giving users an initial taste of what Live Search has to offer in the realm of literary works. The service will perform keyword searches for books that have thus far been scanned in by Microsoft as part of the project.