[Sigia-l] Search at Amazon (Search Inside the Book)

Junus, Ranti junus at mail.lib.msu.edu
Sat Oct 25 11:24:22 EDT 2003


Sounds like what O'Reilly publisher have been doing for the last few years... but this is for their books, Microsoft Press and Addison Wesley only. 

http://safari.oreilly.com/

Ziya's idea abot finding the right keywords sequence to get the whole book is intriguing. :-)


ranti.


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..| The Great Library of Amazonia 
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What does everyone think of Amazon making many of its books (120,000
titles) searchable, disposing with rigid-and-narrow categories-only
architecture, and embracing the openness and potential of user-powered
content-focused navigation (ie. full-text search)?

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