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October 24, 2003
Amazon.com Launches Full Text Searching of Books
A letter from Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO, on his Amazon.com site today, states:
"Starting today, you can find books at Amazon.com based on every word inside them, not just on matches to author or title keywords. Search Inside the Book - the name of this new feature - searches the complete inside text of more than 120,000 books - all 33 million pages of them."
Click here, for example, to find all the books that mention MemoWare, Craig's main online endeavor before GearBits.
After finding books that mention your search terms, you can also see a scan of that page. An Amazon.com press release gives more details of the service. The service inaugurates a capability unmatched by any other major online or bricks-and-mortar book retailer - although publisher O'Reilly's subscription-based Safari service has previously allowed IT professionals to search through the text of 1,000 selected technical reference books.
This appears to be the first results of Amazon.com's foray into search, under its wholly-owned A9 subsidiary. A9 was founded earlier this year, and operates independently of Amazon.com under Udi Manber, a former executive at search giant Yahoo.
Posted by Sam in Computing
and Internet
and Popular Media
Comments
Heh...that's too cool, Sam. It's especially flattering when other people do your vanity googling. ;-) In this case, is it vanity amazoning??
Posted by: Craig at November 3, 2003 12:10 AM
That wasn't vanity anything, that was "journalistic research"!
Posted by: Sam at November 3, 2003 10:28 AM