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Fwd: Amazon Launches "Search Inside the Book" Program
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Iain D. Brown
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Oct 28, 2003 01:49 PST
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I thought this might interest EDliners and Grapeviners. -- Iain.
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[Cross-posted from LIS-LINK]
From: Ian Winship, ian.wi-@UNN.AC.UK
Date: Monday, October 27, 2003, 9:55:03 AM
Amazon.com (but not the UK site) has a new service launched last
week called "Search Inside the Book" which allows you to search
the full-text - over 33 million pages - from over 120,000 titles
from some 190 publishers, including Wiley, Time Warner Book
Group, Simon & Schuster, Inc., Random House, Inc., Publishers
Group West, Incorporated, McGraw-Hill Professional, and
HarperCollins Publishers.
How Does "Search Inside the Book" Work?
+ Access via any Amazon search box.
+ Enter your search terms.
+ No advanced search capabilities or search limits are available.
+ A typical list of titles is returned. However, some titles
contain extra information and links. They appear directly below
the pricing information and begin with the word "excerpt." Click
here and you'll see a scanned image of the page with your search
term(s) highlighted.
+ You'll need to be registered with Amazon.Com to access the
full-text.
+ Amazon is using optical character recognition technology to
find words embedded in the scanned images.
+ Searching for phrases seems a bit imprecise. Although I
searched "golden retriever" (and used quotation marks), hits were
on the term "golden".
+ Implied "AND" between terms.
+ It's also possible to find a title and then search within it.
For example, note the "search inside this book" label above the
cover image.
+ An illustrated example page is available (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/10197021/ref%3Dsib_merch_gw/102-7531072-8771324).
An FAQ is also available:
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/10197041/102-7531072-8771324 >
(These details taken from http://www.resourceshelf.com/)
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