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Amazon limits full-text search
News Amazon.com has disabled the printing feature of its recently introduced "Search inside the book" service after an authors' group voiced concern that it could erode sales of some types of works. Disabling the print function greatly reduces the risk...
[November 3, 2003, 13:45]
Amazon opens up texts
News The service, dubbed "Search inside the book," lets people type in any keyword and receive results for all the pages and titles of various books that contain that term. Innovation drives customer experience, and Search inside the book is a great...
[October 24, 2003, 15:00]
Amazon refuses to hand over book search 'secrets'
News It included pages like "Search Inside the Book, How It Works" and a news release titled "Amazon.com Works with Publishers to Make Millions of Book Pages Available for Customers to Flip Through". The tool is similar to Amazon's Search Inside and...
[October 26, 2006, 11:20]
Amazon ups the ante for digitisation
News The in-copyright books, whether they're in print or out of print — in both cases we want to continue as we have been with Search Inside the Book. And so you're not going to discontinue Search Inside the Book?
[November 10, 2005, 17:15]
Amazon slips into search waters
News Manber joined Amazon two years ago and helped develop the company's "Search Inside the Book" feature, which lets people browse books by viewing digital renditions of the pages inside them. Unlike Google, A9 displays search results with expandable...
[April 15, 2004, 8:20]
The Search review
Reviews But don't condemn the book on those grounds: Battelle has done an excellent job of researching the projects he does talk about and surveying the landscape. The Search covers the history and future of the ubiquitous search box, from Altavista...
[November 16, 2005, 12:10]
Contact by Number
Downloads With Contact by Number application you can effectively search your contacts in the iPhone or iPod by any number in the address book. You can view, update, your contacts inside the application. While you type in parts of the number, this list...
[August 18, 2009, 10:06]
Mail Scripts
Downloads You can select which groups and which fields you want to export.Search Addresses (Address Book): Find all addresses inside the Address Book matching one or more criteria. As opposed to the "Search" function built into the Address Book, this lets...
[October 5, 2009, 4:38]
Best-Selling Illustrated History Collection - US and European History, Art History, Bible, and more
Downloads Encyclopedia of World War II Battles American Presidents - early life, political career, significant events, legislation, programs, appointments, personal life, and post-presidential career of all American Presidents Kings and Queens of England...
[March 8, 2007, 6:00]
Authors may challenge Amazon full-text search
News The service, dubbed "Search inside the book", lets users type in any keyword and receive results for all the pages and titles of various books that contain that term. It turns out that it's quite simple (though a bit inconvenient) to look at 100 or...
[October 27, 2003, 11:40]
Amazon unveils Google search rival
News Amazon released its "search inside the book" feature last year, which allows people to search within and view excerpts of more than 20,000 books. They're also directly competing in the burgeoning field of book search.
[September 15, 2004, 11:35]
Blogger seeks credit for Amazon 'adult' book furore
News Weev said he figured out that he could get the books removed from search rankings by reporting them as inappropriate through a link at the bottom of the book page. Amazon has been lambasted by gay-rights groups after gay and lesbian book titles...
[April 14, 2009, 9:22]
Google Print faces further delays
News The Henry James' "Daisy Miller" site allows users to search within the book, turn the pages, get more information about the book and offers links to book sellers. Google plans to resume its library book scanning "soon", a Google spokesman said on...
[November 4, 2005, 8:40]
Google trials text search
News The experiment comes two months after Amazon launched "Search Inside the Book," a searchable index of millions of pages of books. Google said that no money exchanges hands between itself, publishers or book sellers if Web surfers buy a title as a...
[December 18, 2003, 8:40]
Enigma thief will be found, says Bletchley director
News Publicising the launch of her book about the case, Hijacking Enigma, Large said she is certain that the theft was an inside job. Christine Large, director of the Bletchley Park Trust, which runs the Buckinghamshire heritage site from which the...
[August 11, 2003, 13:35]
Time to plan your Web services
News For example, many technical sites now include a list of books that cover the topic being discussed on a particular page of their site along with, of course, links to Amazon where they can buy the book.
[August 8, 2002, 14:05]
Has MSN's time come?
News Microsoft, it seems, is faced with a classic "innovator's dilemma", as author Clayton Christensen put it in his groundbreaking book that defined why tech giants usually miss. A group of pro-Internet "doves" led by then-executive Brad Silverberg and...
[September 23, 2005, 17:30]
Add-ons for your handheld review
Reviews The Universal cases featured here come in either a book style (which unsurprisingly opens like a book) or a top style, which opens like a reporter's ring-bound notepad and offers marginally more space inside.
[November 7, 2003, 11:10]
Google not going to enter browser market
News For example, Amazon's new search venture A9.com is built by several application protocol interfaces that tap into Amazon's own "search inside the book" feature. Google board member and investor John Doerr said Tuesday that despite speculation, the...
[October 6, 2004, 9:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Slap one on a book and leave it in a second-hand shop, and you can tell when its been bought and, once its been taken home, who's bought it. I wander onto the Net and search for cries of pain. SilkRoad (infelicitously spelled SilkToad in one press...
[November 14, 1998, 5:03]
