Interesting new Amazon.com feature.

[Jammrock]

Amazon.com just announced that is has a new search feature, called "Search Inside the Book." They have put every single non-common word for 120 000 books, which they claim is over 33 million pages, into a massive search engine.

You can now type lines, names, phrases and anything else you can remember about a book you're looking for an find the match.

For example, I typed in "Ender Wiggins walked" and it came up with the Ender's Series by Orson Scott Card

They are even having a contest for the new feature. The grand prize is a segway, others are a $100 gift cert.

Pretty kool. I'd like to see the hardware that DB sits on!

Jammrock

[jonnylane]

I find myself shocked that there are 127 hits for "whippersnapper".

Very cool, though..

Jonathan

[Helevitia]

Interesting, I typed "beets" and "century" and came up with the book I was looking for wihtin the first 20 of 120 hits. The book is called "Jitterbug Perfume".

Dave

[cjolley]

"spam ballhog" hit "Bored of the Ring" as a single hit
I'm sold.
chuck

[Jammrock]

Originally posted by cjolley
"spam ballhog" hit "Bored of the Ring" as a single hit
I'm sold.
chuck

ROFLMAO!!!

I read the preview of that and nearly passed out from laughter.

Jammrock

[cjolley]

Originally posted by Jammrock
ROFLMAO!!!

I read the preview of that and nearly passed out from laughter.

Jammrock

Read the whole thing.
It's great!
chuck

[Jammrock]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743244281/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/104-3468476-9699100?v=glance&s=books