No more Book search on Microsoft

"Micrisoft puts an end to its book search"

Microsoft Corp. is ending a program that lets Web users search through digital versions of books, ceding the market to Google Inc.

Microsoft is making changes to its Internet business as it chooses battles with Google, owner of the dominant search engine. Microsoft said this week that it would offer rebates to shoppers who buy products through its Live.com search system, taking a different tack from Google's.

After Google started a similar program with libraries. The Microsoft program digitized 750,000 books and indexed 80 million journal articles.

Google's book-search project, which began in 2004, works with Harvard University, the New York Public Library and other organizations to scan books. The company also works with about 10,000 publishers to digitize their books.