Comments on: Live.com Academic Search to Launch Tonight

By: Unit Structures – The Evolution of Academic Search

Unit Structures – The Evolution of Academic Search — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:45:31 +0000

[...] believe a lot of students will find these features very useful. As reported on Techcrunch, Live Academic only supports the sciences, but they plan to add subject areas as development [...]

By: Software Trader

Software Trader — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:09:51 +0000

I very much doubt that new SE will make serious competition Google and Yahoo. The market поисковиков already for a long time поеделен. I only do not understand why Microsoft have not continued to advance MSN at which there is though what that chances.

By: bibliothécaire » Windows Live Academic Search, question

bibliothécaire » Windows Live Academic Search, question — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:22:39 +0000

[...] L'url "http://academic.live.com" me renvoit sur "http://www.live.com/". La France est-elle hors des 7 pays de lancement ou bien y a-t-il une manoeuvre que je n'ai pas su faire (cf. Techcrunch)? [...]

By: Jimmy Gambier

Jimmy Gambier — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:43:57 +0000

I would really like to see this kind of search for web developers. Right now I spend much of my time looking through del.icio.us for interesting stuff.

By: Tyroga

Tyroga — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:36:26 +0000

Is “beta” the new “Under Construction”?

By: mahalie

mahalie — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:46:05 +0000

MS vs. Google issues aside, the GUI is nice, much better than the usual MS portal. Now, one might call it Googlish, but I think it’s more than that…it’s simply more up to date with web 2.0 standards. Regardless of where MS ought to be exerting energy, I hope this sort of gui treatment is adopted in other areas such as MSDN, MSN and Hotmail.

By: kaveh

kaveh — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:13:55 +0000

Take off the “Microsoft Filter” off your lenses and see the much more useful/innovative UI of Live.com Academic.

BTW, lookup the definition of Innovation and you will agree that many, not all, Microsoft’s products meet the criteria. Being first to market w. something that’s not as useful as intended, is not innovative.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:12:28 +0000

No. 9 …

I’m not denying you’re a headhunter … but why GMail, and not Hotmail?

By: MicrosoftRecruiter

MicrosoftRecruiter — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:06:43 +0000

If anyone with a strong background is maybe looking to work for live.com, please feel free to contact me: Headhunter00@gmail.com

I am working closely with them.

Email me if you would like more info & Descriptions..

By: Vaibhav Domkundwar

Vaibhav Domkundwar — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:10:54 +0000

This is a really nice interface and well suited to users researching this niche. Its interesting to see Academia being targeted as an initial verticalized search segment by Google as well as Microsoft. It is definitely easier than other vertical due t othe domain specific aspect. Results are somewhat better on Google as per my quick comparison but the live.com interface is better – question is : Will end users adopt such interfaces for search or will prefer the plain looking Google search results pages which are definitely easier on the eye.

By: Spaceman Spiff

Spaceman Spiff — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:56:10 +0000

It seems that they would do better to just crawl Pubmed and display the abstracts alongside it than what they have right now.

The image search did not do any better in showing just the images from academic sources. plenty of image spam in there as well.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:28:07 +0000

#2 … I completely agree with you. Microsoft is just playing catch up with Google at this point — I just wish they would leave the search market and come up with something innovative elsewhere… Particularly in their area of expertise.

Microsoft develops an O/S and Office apps … That’s what they should focus on. Just like Google is a search company — they should focus on search. I don’t give two craps about shareholders and diversity, and quite frankly if I *WAS* a shareholder, the fact that both companies are doing half-assed innovation would scare me a bit.

By: Tevfik

Tevfik — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:26:30 +0000

The results are much weaker then Google scholar. I use google scholar for quick searches and it is really nice. You can see how many times the paper is refered etc.

The only think that I like in microsofts search is the direct link to bibtex entries for the results, otherwise it is not good.

By: » Windows Live Academic Search InsideMicrosoft - part of the Blog News Channel

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:57:32 +0000

[...] Michael Arrington and Kathy Gill also have their thoughts. Posted: 4/12/2006 by Nathan Weinberg in: [...]

By: Avi Bryant

Avi Bryant — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:19:10 +0000

Anyone know if there are plans for an API for this?

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:46:04 +0000

Well Universities have been providing this service for many many years so this isn’t some brilliant scheme from google by any means. I have never seen it offered publicly though, without having subscription costs. This one doesn’t sound free either “subscription content for their members.” So…what’s the difference?

By: Saul Weiner

Saul Weiner — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:30:17 +0000

This is a big play by MSFT against Google. Is it me or are MSFT always playing catchup. It’s a pity because they have some really smart folks there who could really innovate instead of retaliate.