Bing’s search results are getting a bit more informational thanks to a new partnership with Encyclopedia Britannica. They’re calling it “Britannica Online Encyclopedia Answers,” and it adds extra ...

Encyclopedia Britannica has partnered with Microsoft to supplement Bing's answers feature. The collaboration was announced on Bing's official blog and is billed as a reliable way to quickly find what ...

Chicago-based Encyclopaedia Britannica, which shelved its venerable print edition in favor of a digital-only version more than two years ago, is looking to reclaim its legacy as the household ...

Bing announced they now have Encyclopedia Britannica answers directly in their search results. Microsoft Bing said, "we're excited to announce a partnership with Encyclopedia Britannica to include ...

The Encyclopaedia Britannica has been the most prestigious general encyclopedia in the English language for what seems like forever. But it has always been expensive, and a bit stodgy. Today, when ...

CHICAGO - Hours after Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. announced it will stop publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia for the first time in more than 200 years, someone among the editing ...

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After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica will cease to publish its flagship line of reference books and will concentrate instead on its digital offerings. “We’d like to think our tradition is not ...

In January 2014, Google made a fundamental change to its search product: It started showing answers to user queries directly in so-called snippets, no further clicks required. But what started out as ...

The massive, iconic Encyclopaedia Britannica is now officially out of print. The staple of your local library, that 32-volume set, will be no more. The company’s final edition, from 2010, still ...

Microsoft has signed a deal with Encyclopaedia Britannica to add entries from the reference work to Bing. The tie-up means summaries of topics using data from the Encyclopaedia will be added to some ...

Now that the two standout multimedia encyclopedias, Microsoft Encarta and Encyclopedia Britannica, have started to put their contents on the Internet for free consumption, will their CD-ROM cousins ...