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 >> > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >