Re: pinhole Amazon.com fulltext search

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From: John or Jan Lahr (johnjan@lahr.org)
Date: Sat Oct 25 2003 - 15:33:58 PDT 

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Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 16:33:58 -0600
From: John or Jan Lahr <johnjan@lahr.org>
Subject: Re: pinhole Amazon.com fulltext search

Hi Deb,

I was looking for a tab labeled "search inside books," or something to that
effect.

Eventually I discovered that this feature is not a separate type of search
but is
built into all book searches!

Thanks for the heads up.

John

At 04:10 PM 10/24/2003, you wrote:
>When I type in:
>http://www.amazon.com/
>
>it take me automatically to
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/home.html/104-5831921-9038342
>
>You may not be seeing the latest Amazon homepage as your browser may have
>cached what you looked at the last time you were there. The news just came
>out yesterday. To clear out your cache and reload a brand new page, hold
>down the SHIFT key while clicking on the REFRESH button (on the IE
>toolbar) or the RELOAD button (on the Netscape toolbar).
>Deb
>
>At 10:42 PM 10/23/03 -0600, John or Jan Lahr wrote:
>>Hi Deb,
>>
>>Could you give a more specific URL or say what to click on? I didn't see
>>the full-word search on
>>the amazon.com site.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>John
>>
>>At 03:25 PM 10/23/2003, you wrote:
>>>Hi, Pinholers,
>>>
>>>>Amazon just posted a note today announcing fulltext search capability
>>>>of 33,000,000 pages of 120,000 books (though this is a very small
>>>>percentage of everything in print or out-of-print).
>>>
>>>see http://www.amazon.com/
>>>
>>>Deb
>>
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