Amazon.com Unveils Full Text Search of 120,000 Books
Amazon.com raised the curtains on a new "Search Inside the Book" feature that lets shoppers preview full text of titles. The new service lets shoppers find titles based on every word inside more than 120,000 books and puts some 33 million pages of searchable text at the disposal of Amazon.com shoppers. It works by returning an image of the page where the keyword search appears. Once the shopper clicks on the link to a specific page and logs in with an Amazon.com user name, password and valid credit card, the company would allow the preview of relevant pages and the ability to search for other terms of interest with the book. [Full story: Amazon Unveils Full Text Searches - Internet News]
Posted under Ecommerce on October 23, 2003.
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