Microsoft debuts book search tool (BBC)

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Anyone wanting to view an obscure tome from the vaults of the British Library will be able to look for it online from Thursday.

Microsoft is releasing its Live Search Books, a rival to Google's Book Search, in test, or beta, version in the US.

The digital archive will include books from the collections of the British Library, the University of California and the University of Toronto.

Books from three other institutions will be added in January 2007.

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All the books currently included in the project will be non-copyrighted but later it will also add copyrighted work that publishers have given permission to include in the project.
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