[AccessD] SPAM-LOW: Re: OT: Amazon book searches

David McAfee davidmcafee at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 12:32:06 CST 2009


C sharp .net

259 results. All C# books.

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:09 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
> I put "C#" in books and got 1,928,887 results.
>
>
> The top result returned was
>
> Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (Hardcover - Mar 6, 2001)
>
> Excerpt -  page 91: "... than a healthy man may have shown in winning the V.C. When a man who has
> been perverted from his youth ..."
>
> With the C in V.C. highlighted as the "hit".
>
> Absolutely useless.
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
>
> Jim Hewson wrote:
>> I did something similar and got 850 books on the returned list.
>> I put in C# in quotes in the keywords field.
>> The second entry on the return had "relevant" searches with C# as one of the
>> choices.
>> I clicked that and a list of only C# books showed.
>> Jim
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
>> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 9:32 AM
>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Amazon book searches
>>
>> Dan,
>>
>>  > In the keywords field enter C#, then push the orange search button.
>>  >
>>  > You'll get a page full of all C# books!
>>
>> You do indeed.
>>
>> LOL... look at the number of hits.  Do you REALLY believe that there are
>> 14,220 books on C#?
>>
>> Now instead of "sort by" relevance select "Sort By" Avg Customer Review.
>>
>> Are you interested in "taking charge of your fertility"?  ;)  Well, perhaps
>> but that is another subject.
>>
>> How about cosmos by Carl Sagan?  As an amateur astronomer I am indeed
>> interested, but not when I am
>> searching for C# books.
>>
>> Billboard of the top 40 hits anyone?  I for one am not remotely interested.
>>
>> What in the heck does any of that have to do with C#?  The answer appears to
>> be that the search
>> engine strips off the # and returns anything with... C anywhere in the name
>> or description.  Wow,
>> how useful is THAT?
>>
>> So yea, if you don't care about what other people think about the books,
>> then you can indeed get
>> hundreds (thousands?) of hits on C#.  OTOH if you immediately attempt to see
>> only the "best" books,
>> then that search is not so helpful.
>>
>> John W. Colby
>> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>>
>>
>> Dan Waters wrote:
>>> John - try this:
>>>
>>> Under Search or Category, select Books.
>>> Then select Advanced Search (directly under 'Search').
>>> In the keywords field enter C#, then push the orange search button.
>>>
>>> You'll get a page full of all C# books!
>>>
>>> Are you buying a Christmas present for someone?
>>>
>>>
>>> Good Luck,
>>> Dan
>>
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