Live Search Books University of Toronto – Scholar’s Portal Forum 2007 January 2007

Windows Live Book SearchConfidential (Restricted) - Use pursuant to Company instructions 2 Introducing Windows Live™ Windows Live is a new set of personal Internet services and software designed to bring together in one place all of the relationships, information and interests people care about most, with essential safety and security features across PCs, devices, and the Web. A sampling of current and forthcoming services: Visit to learn more Live Search Windows Live.com Windows Live Toolbar Windows Live Favorites Windows Live Messenger Windows Live QnA Windows Live Mail Windows Live Local Windows Live Mail Desktop Windows Live OneCare Windows Live Expo Windows Live for Mobile

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Windows Live Book SearchConfidential (Restricted) - Use pursuant to Company instructions 11 Live Search Academic Launched in April, 2006 · Designed to help students, researchers and university faculty conduct research across a spectrum of academic journals, conferences, theses, and books. · Currently focused on the Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics and Bio-Medical · Over 27M articles from over 30,000 journals ·

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Windows Live Book SearchConfidential (Restricted) - Use pursuant to Company instructions 13 Product Strategy The mission of Live Search – deliver the most relevant Internet Search for our customers. But in many cases this goal is not being met… · Approximately 50% of all queries are not answered to the satisfaction of users · Some categories of exploratory queries take an average of 11 minutes to answer Why? The crawlable web only scratches the surface of the world’s information · It is estimated that only 10% of the world’s information is searchable · More than 50% of all search queries are only asked once a day (the long tail) What portion of the other 90% of the world’s information helps us meet our goal?

Windows Live Book SearchConfidential (Restricted) - Use pursuant to Company instructions 14 Over 25B non-web print documents (US alone) 11.2B Books 3.0B Newspapers 0.5B Magazines 10.0B Government Documents (probably more) ~0.2B Academic Journals

Windows Live Book SearchConfidential (Restricted) - Use pursuant to Company instructions 15 Demand Summary Overview of Non-Web Opportunity by Category Over 50% of searches fall into categories where users rated importance higher than satisfaction. Categories where more than 15% of respondents thought books were one of the best sources of information: Education/Learning Health Hobbies/Lifestyles Reference These categories represent over ¼ of web queries

Windows Live Book SearchConfidential (Restricted) - Use pursuant to Company instructions 16 Users Also Tell Us That They Wish That They Could Find Older Content on the Internet Old Was Defined as Being Published More than 20 Years Ago, Much of Which is not Digitized % of Survey Respondents Who Ranked “Finding Older Information” a “9” or “10” on a 10-point Importance Scale (10=Extremely Important) History Facts, Definitions, Trivia in Many Categories Reference Music Medicine Literature, PoetryArt Religion LocalHealthEducationGovernmentNewsSocial Sciences Source: Off-network survey, Oct’06. N=600

Windows Live Book SearchConfidential (Restricted) - Use pursuant to Company instructions 18 Two sources of content The Windows Live Book Search Library Program · Focused on scanning and indexing out-of-copyright content only, at leading libraries around the world · Scanning operations at University of California libraries, The University of Toronto Library, Cornell University Library, New York Public Library and The British Library The Windows Live Book Search Publisher Program · Enables rights holders (usually a publisher or author) to submit in-copyright titles for inclusion in our index

Windows Live Book SearchConfidential (Restricted) - Use pursuant to Company instructions 19 Library Program Microsoft and the Library want to combine our unique assets to deliver innovative products that enable users to access and have rich interaction with the world’s knowledge present in the Library. Key Assets · Microsoft brings software expertise and a distribution channel · The libraries bring their unparallel collections and staff expertise regarding preservation, quality, and these collections · Our scanning partners bring their ability to deliver high quality, low cost digitization services at high volume All partners recognize the importance of respecting copyright and the protection of intellectual property

Windows Live Book SearchConfidential (Restricted) - Use pursuant to Company instructions 20 Live Search Books Microsoft’s new online search service fo

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Windows Live Book SearchConfidential (Restricted) - Use pursuant to Company instructions 22 Working with Libraries From the Library Catalog · New titles to the collection · New options for items already catalogued From Live Search Books · Nearest library · Inline reserve, holdings info, ILL · OpenURL linking Others?

Windows Live Book SearchConfidential (Restricted) - Use pursuant to Company instructions 23 Live is good! Thank you!