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

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
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
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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
> 
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