Makes Google look like a Part IB Project…
October 23rd, 2003Wow. Amazon have got a new feature - you can now search inside books as well as their titles.
Apart from the bog-standard geek fascination as to how they pulled this off, this also offers an intriguing new way of, for example, tracking obscure references or quotes or checking for plagiarism, as well as the potential for doing all the silly things you did with Google - searching for yourself/friends/family, for example. We could even come up with the sport of “AmazonWhacking”…