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Visual Basic 2005 Jumpstart: Developing a Windows Application
White Paper The application lets the user search Amazon.com for information about particular titles by entering keywords in a search window. The catalog stores details such as the ISBN (the book industry standard number used to uniquely identify a book), title... [24 Oct 2007]
Bertelsmann eyes a 'MySpace' for silver surfers
News Like many other media companies, Bertelsmann burned its fingers five years ago on the web with an ill-fated online book retailer that failed to survive competition with Amazon.com, although Bertelsmann did turn a massive profit by selling its AOL... [04 Apr 2006]
Google to resume book scanning "soon"...
News Also on Thursday, Amazon.com said it would launch its own book digitization projects to allow publishers to charge for online access to books next year. The Henry James' "Daisy Miller" site allows users to search within the book, turn the pages... [04 Nov 2005]
Amazon reaches out beyond its border
Comment Users keep a dedicated address in their contact list which they click to search for an item on Amazon, though they never leave the IM client to do so. Last October Amazon released version 4.0 of the platform, which incorporated new features such as... [09 Mar 2005]
Google toolbar picks where you surf
News Book publishers' ISBN numbers trigger links to Amazon.com, potentially luring shoppers away from competing book sellers. and MapQuest, and choices for book retailers may be added in the future. Google's browser toolbar is raising eyebrows over a... [21 Feb 2005]
Libraries' treasures get the Google treatment
News And Amazon.com features a search-inside-the-book tool so that people can browse works digitally before buying. Because libraries own only copies of copyrighted books and don't hold the rights to reproduce those works for wide distribution, Google... [15 Dec 2004]
Google dampens browser speculation
News For example, Amazon's new search venture A9.com is built by several application protocol interfaces that tap into Amazon's own "search inside the book" feature. Many executives from the internet's early days - Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, Broadcast.com... [06 Oct 2004]
5 years ago: E-books make their appearance
News Amazon, however, has been making use of its search technology to give readers an insight into the inside of books it sells but without the need to publish the entire tome on the web. The company this summer put its Star Wars tie-ins on the net... [15 Sep 2004]
Amazon launches internet search engine
News Amazon released its "search inside the book" feature last year, which allows people to search within and view excerpts of more than 20,000 books. Amazon.com has officially taken the wraps off its internet search engine, joining the contest to... [15 Sep 2004]
Amazon premieres search engine
News The search site touts a novel design that lets people sift through web search results, store and view their own search history, and find book information from Amazon related to query terms. Manber joined Amazon two years ago and helped develop the... [15 Apr 2004]
Will's Web Watch: Please God! Not another best man doing the 'key joke'
Comment The reason Amazon.com is so successful is because it sells products multiple times to its consumers. It sold millions of the latest Harry Potter book. Search on Google or AltaVista now and you will find hundreds of sites offering you a 'build your... [21 Jul 2003]
Boom and bust merchant Blodget quits Merrill Lynch
News Blodget originally helped fuel growth in the dot-com sector with bullish reports on stocks such as Amazon.com, but the heady days of a couple f years ago are now a distant memory and Blodget is perhaps pre-empting suggestions that he has... [15 Nov 2001]
Web will eat itself
Comment We assume that, as we stride purposefully across our cosy, jargon-strewn landscape, even mere mortals have heard of Amazon. One participant in BT's exercise, which involved them filming ten families using the net, bought some books from Amazon.com... [09 Mar 2001]
The end of the affair: Yahoo! closes the book on Amazon
News A link to barnesandnoble.com will now appear on every search results page on Yahoo's sites.barnesandnoble.com will also be a featured merchant on Yahoo's shopping site, a status not previously enjoyed as part of Amazon.com's deal. [19 Sep 2000]
The Electronic B@zaar: Part 2 - the four hinges
Comment There are literally millions of examples of websites with varying degrees of sophistication, from Amazon with its single-click purchase to Boo.com with its three-dimensional dressing room for clothes buyers. [28 Jun 2000]
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