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Stupid Amazon Tricks...

Try this.  In Amazon, search Books for ASP.NET.  The results look plausable, but they are sorted in “Featured Item” order by default.  This generally seems to me to be a way to have the most profitiable item first, so I generally search in “Bestselling” order.  Now that Amazon has indexed books, you get all sorts of wacky results when you search.  For instance, the number one book on ASP.NET (when in Bestselling Order) is The World Almanac For Kids.  Huh?  One of the books listed (number 4 as I look) is Ender's Game, which seems to have a reference to a team named Asp.  Really helpful.

Amazon, give us back our old search!

Comments

AndrewSeven said:

"Spamazon: Email about books, books about email."
I just wish I could find the banner ad that said it...
# January 8, 2004 7:12 PM

Francois said:

Indeed, just use the more powerful "advanced" search and limit your search to the title, it bloody helps.
I wonder how huge are their databases with this boring content indexing :|
# January 9, 2004 5:23 AM
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