Yeah, I saw that too. The search results seem pretty well weighted towards
title and author so that they come up first. But searching for something
like "style sheet" comes up with a crapload of hits for books that aren't
about CSS or even stylesheets as a concept.

New Asian Style: Contemporary Tropical Living in Singapore
Excerpt from page 53: ". . . 12-seat dining table formed from a custom-made,
3-m (10-ft) long sheet of glass atop twin Ming-style huanghuali side tables.
Huanghuali benches each sit two guests at . . ."

Thinking Styles
Excerpt from page 30: ". . . to college bookstores and find some of them
selling answer sheets for electronically scored stan- Functions of Thinking
Styles 31 dardized tests. Students not only have to study for . . ."

-Kevin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 10:08 AM
Subject: Amazon's killer new toy

> You can search for any term in every page of every book Amazon.com
> sells.  It's amazingly fast, too.  I did a search for "spinach quiche"
> and it returned a big list of books, with the words as they appear, and
> when you click on them, you get a scan of that page with the word
> highlighted.  Nothing new in the interface, just put in something in the
> book search and have at it.
>
> This is more fun than Googling :)
>
> - Jim
>
>
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