Saturday, October 25, 2003

Full-Text Search at Amazon Breaking News: Amazon Debuts Full-Text Search For 120,000 Titles The new service (online today) is called "Search Inside the Book" and allows you to search the full-text, over 33 million pages from over 120,000 titles. CBS Marketwatch reports that over 190 publishers are participating including Wiley, Time Warner Book Group, Simon & Schuster, Inc., Random House, Inc., Publishers Group West, Incorporated, McGraw-Hill Professional, Holtzbrinck Publishers and HarperCollins Publishers. Of course the full-text from 120,000 titles can have enormous research and reference value. However, Amazon's primary motivation for offering this service is to sell books.[ResourceShelf] I'm a few days out of date here, since I've been busy attending and presenting at the AASL conference. I haven't had time to check my news aggregator since Thursday, obviously, since that was the day this news about Amazon broke. Gary has a lot more details in this entry at the ResourceShelf, including some of the ways this service doesn't work and some other full-text services that are offered through libraries. 6:07:27 PM    comment []

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