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

Mike Dupont jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
Fri Jun 8 12:37:47 UTC 2012


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 <jayen466 at 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 <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 8 June 2012 12:07, Katie Chan <ktc at 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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