[WikiEN-l] Bing tie-up with Encyclopaedia Britannica

2012-06-08 Thread Katie Chan 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18365767

Microsoft has signed a deal with Encyclopaedia Britannica to add 
entries from the reference work to Bing.



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Re: [WikiEN-l] Bing tie-up with Encyclopaedia Britannica

2012-06-08 Thread David Gerard 
On 8 June 2012 12:07, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote:

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18365767
 Microsoft has signed a deal with Encyclopaedia Britannica to add entries
 from the reference work to Bing.


Now all they need is to add them to MySpace.


- d.

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Bing tie-up with Encyclopaedia Britannica

2012-06-08 Thread Mike Dupont 
Oh, nice I have worked on something like that on 2007
https://code.launchpad.net/~jamesmikedupont/introspectorreader/wikipedia-strategy

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:

 Another link that appears in Bing is Qwiki. This has a voice reading out
 the leads of Wikipedia articles, accompanied by related images.

 Example:  http://www.qwiki.com/q/Doris_Lessing

 http://searchengineland.com/bing-britannica-partnership-123930

 Qwiki also enables users to create their own multimedia presentations.

 Andreas

 On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:36 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:

  On 8 June 2012 12:07, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote:
 
   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18365767
   Microsoft has signed a deal with Encyclopaedia Britannica to add
 entries
   from the reference work to Bing.
 
 
  Now all they need is to add them to MySpace.
 
 
  - d.
 
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