jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Dec 10 11:09:10 CST 2009
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 >