The New York Times reports that Amazon is considering a service to allow their users to do a full-text search on the text of all books, and then view the surrounding excerpt. When combined with Amazon?s tabs for Movie Showtimes and Restaurants (including scanned menus), the Times suggests, it almost looks like Amazon is trying to compete with Google.
This reminds me of an idea I had the other day: TV searching. Google hooks up a bunch of their machines to video capture cards and begins recording all the TV channels. Then, they make a full-text available using the closed captioning information.
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