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The way to find needles in the immense haystack of Amazon.com is through constrained search. Amazon's search function, like most others, claims to use a logical AND operator on keywords. That is search results for "Amazon Warriors," for example, should contain both "Amazon" AND "Warriors." In fact, you will find that, all things being equal -- "Amazon" AND "Warriors" results will appear higher than "Amazon" OR "Warriors" results. You need to "drill down" through the thousands of Amazon Categories to find the results that meet your criteria. I could go on and on (there really are thousands of categories) but I think this small sample will illustrate how different your results can be for a single search term

There are over 75 million pages at Amazon.com, and the major search engines don't index them nearly as well as you might think. My blog is your guide to the Amazon backwaters. This work is supported solely by Amazon commissions.

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MSN Search makes results available as feeds, which makes it easy to aggregate related "topic" pages from our bookstore, regardless of their postion in Amazon's hierarchy. Makes browsing faster and searching smarter. (BETA)

[tuesday, 16 august 2005] what've been done: 1. re-enabling of the comments system 2. search tool (see bottom of page & the archives page) 3. sorting of entries into categories (script hacked!) 4. monthly archives (again on the archives page) what next: 1

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