jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Dec 10 14:29:33 CST 2009
Wow. I saw that and it didn't register that it was a search widget. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Jim Hewson wrote: > I did too... but if you look at the second entry under C there is a link to > C#. > That link will give C# books. I further filtered it down to C# in the title > -- 693 results > > Try this: > http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=node%3D697342&field-keywords=%22C%23%2 > 2 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 11:09 AM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] SPAM-LOW: Re: OT: Amazon book searches > > 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