Microsoft Academic Search Microsoft Academic Search Microsoft Academic Search was a research project and academic search engine retired in 2012. It relaunched in 2016 as Microsoft Academic. Microsoft launched a search tool called Windows Live Academic Search in 2006 to directly compete with Google Scholar. It was renamed Live Search Academic after its first year and then discontinued two years later. In 2009, Microsoft Research Asia Group launched a beta tool called Libra in 2009, which was for the purpose of algorithms research in object-level vertical search, data mining, entity linking, and data visualization. Libra was redirected to the MAS service by 2011
Bilingual search engine Bilingual search engine A bilingual search engine provides multiple language search pages when users type keyword in one language. Obviously, this kind of search engine will give more detailed information for people who speak more than one language, although many mainstream search engines provide multiple languages services. However, the difference between a bilingual search engine and a multiple language search engine is a bilingual search engine will translate keyword from one language to another automatically. Google also published a plug-in (Bilingual Search Suggestion) for Chrome browser to meet the requirement of bilingual search,but it was canceled and unable be found