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...filtering tool so that you can control how much and what type of data appears on your map. MSN's main search page has already been revamped. When you search keywords, you can click through different sets of results: Web links, news items, images and Encarta encyclopedia entries, as well as a desktop option (which requires a separate download) that lets you search for relevant files stored on your PC. Starting this week, you can select Local to conduct a local search, map the results and view satellite images, all features that will be tightly integrated with the upcoming Virtual...
...owned by Time Warner) has worked with shows like Big Brother and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? on advertising cross-promotions and last month announced it was talking to TV production houses about developing its own online content. Microsoft, though slower to embrace Hollywood, is putting its Encarta encyclopedia on its search site. Even Google, which says it is committed to search, last month launched a service allowing users to look up movies, find local screen times and link to reviews...
...initiative to help far-flung graduates keep in touch with campus events, contains several lengthy passages that are lifted verbatim from other sources without any attribution. The site includes a 69-word section on Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler that is identical to an article in the computerized encyclopedia Microsoft Encarta, as well as a 46-word passage on Euler that appears to have been copied straight from Encyclopedia Britannica. The site also published a 65-word passage that previously appeared verbatim in a 1997 law review article on cryptography...
...fact, he and former Carswell Professor of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah started the Martin Luther King after-school program in Roxbury. The program teaches computer skills and black history using Encarta Africana, which Gates and Appiah developed together...
...Encarta 2004 Reference Library Plus DVD Simply dazzling. What it lacks in depth (only 68,000 articles), it makes up for with engaging new videos from the Discovery Channel and a bright, colorful interface. Encarta at $70 is the best disc-based offering. Famous quotations and translation dictionaries for foreign students are nice extras, and you can download free updates every week. On the downside, there is no full Web-based or Mac version...