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In Microsoft vs. Google, search is true prize
04. February 2008
A good place to see the true frontline in Microsoft's battle with Google is deep in the bowels of the British Library in London.
In a room under the library's red brick building near St Pancras railway station, a Microsoft-funded team is working 14 hours a day to scan shelf upon shelf of books.
Launched a year ago, the project will scan 25 million carefully preserved pages of the British Library's 19th-century archive, around 100,000 books, over the next two years.[read more]