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[site:washingtonpost.com iran] finds pages at the Washington Post website that
contain the keyword "iran." One big drawback of the Live news search is its inability
to list the results by date. .
Feed Search (Beta): This search is virtually identical to the feed: websearch. It
limits searches to text within a feed. Feeds are specially formatted brief descriptions
of content with a link to the full version of that content. RSS (and the competing
Atom) feeds are in XML format. These feeds are usually used for syndicating web
content such as blogs and news. The feed search only searches the text of the feed,
which is often a very condensed description of the full web content.
Example of how to use the feed: command:
[feed:"trojan horse"]
Each of the results represents an XML feed that includes the phrase "trojan horse."
There is no point in clicking on the link in a browser because that brings up the XML
page that most browsers are not designed to parse. The cached copy shows the
search terms as they appeared in the feed.
Live Book Search (beta): Microsoft added its own proprietary book search in late
2006. Details are in the Book Search section below.
Academic (Beta): Microsoft introduced Academic Search Beta for scholarly search
earlier this year, and it is now also a Live search option. Academic search still has a
separate website at the Windows Academic Live Beta Homepage. Clearly,
Academic search is intended to compete with Google Scholar and other scholarly
search sites. Unlike Google Scholar, Academic search focuses on computer
science, physics, medical, and electrical engineering publications. As with Amazon
and Google Scholar, Academic search has partnered with the Online Computer
Library Center (OClC). "OCLC's involvement in Windows Live Academic is part of
the Open WorldCat Find in a Library program,,,S6 and also provides metadata from
World Cat to Academic search to give researchers access to the resources in library
collections around the world.
As with almost anything, Academic search has good features and weaknesses. Here
is a snapshot of the first page of results on the search [neural network]. When you
execute a query, you will be presented with an interface that looks like this. One of
the first things you notice is the split screen, which I actually like.
56 "WorldCat live in Windows Live Academic search tool," OCLC Newsletter, Issue 2, 2006,
(17 October 2006).
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