http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2002-2006 by the authors Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:33:56 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/12/19/012312.php#comment-37028 Google is still trying to be innovative :) Well, be my guest, as long as the basic search is available... ]]> 37028@blogcritics.org Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:33:56 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/12/19/012312.php#comment-34237 Hi Cati, Google must first have an agreement with the book publisher to load the text of the book into the Google search files. Then, once the book text is in the Google databases, a user can search the text of the book. But you can only search the text of books that Google has an agreement to submit to the search files. ]]> 34237@blogcritics.org Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:32:59 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/12/19/012312.php#comment-34193 Good news. How exactly they do so? ]]> 34193@blogcritics.org Sat, 27 Dec 2003 12:06:55 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/12/19/012312.php#comment-33613 Thanks for the clarification, BB! ]]> 33613@blogcritics.org Fri, 19 Dec 2003 19:55:24 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/12/19/012312.php#comment-33606 Did some investigating and this is the proper syntax to use: Fellowship of the Ring site:print.google.com ** "Fellowship of the Ring" being your search string (sans quotes). ]]> 33606@blogcritics.org Fri, 19 Dec 2003 17:57:08 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/12/19/012312.php#comment-33590 Cool, thanks Anita! ]]> 33590@blogcritics.org Fri, 19 Dec 2003 16:23:14 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/12/19/012312.php#comment-33556 That's a great feature! ]]> 33556@blogcritics.org Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:11:48 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/12/19/012312.php#comment-33542 Smart move for Google. It's one more step to ensure that the service it provides is a step ahead of its competitors. ]]> 33542@blogcritics.org Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:16:03 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/12/19/012312.php#comment-33530 Sounds like Google liked Amazon's idea. ]]> 33530@blogcritics.org Fri, 19 Dec 2003 01:54:36 EST