There has been a lot of coverage on the announcement that book search functionality being retired from Live Search:

Today we informed our partners that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and that both sites will be taken down next week. Books and scholarly publications will continue to be integrated into our Search results, but not through separate indexes.

Tafiti search visualization is running on 2 different sites – www.tafiti.com (the original + Halo skins) which is the “production” version – it uses book search;

the other tafiti site – tafiti.mslivelabs.com which uses the Windows Live Messenger Library does a business search instead of book search.

Because book search is winding down we’ll remove this functionality from Tafiti as soon as we get a chance.

Just a reminder that all the Tafiti (with messenger library) source code is available at http://codeplex.com/wlquickapps

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