http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/25/academic-live-and-live-books-axed/ News and views on search tools and electronic resources for business information Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:17:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/25/academic-live-and-live-books-axed/comment-page-1/#comment-4223 Karen Blakeman’s Blog » Blog Archive » Bing UK Round Table Meeting Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:59:22 +0000 http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/?p=293#comment-4223 [...] It was around this point in the discussion that Phil Bradley said  “Nothing new here, nothing that excites me, nothing that is innovative”. And I have to agree with him. UK Bing at present is simply a rebadged version of Live.com. The Microsoft people admitted that it is not as good as it  should be but affirmed their commitment to its development long term. We shall have to wait and see. The UK team obviously passionately believes in the product but Microsoft does not have a good track record when it comes to following through on new initiatives. Academic Live was far superior to Google Scholar and its Live Books had content and advanced search features that Google Books did not. Both services were axed in May 2008. [...] [...] It was around this point in the discussion that Phil Bradley said  “Nothing new here, nothing that excites me, nothing that is innovative”. And I have to agree with him. UK Bing at present is simply a rebadged version of Live.com. The Microsoft people admitted that it is not as good as it  should be but affirmed their commitment to its development long term. We shall have to wait and see. The UK team obviously passionately believes in the product but Microsoft does not have a good track record when it comes to following through on new initiatives. Academic Live was far superior to Google Scholar and its Live Books had content and advanced search features that Google Books did not. Both services were axed in May 2008. [...]

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