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Re: Interesting new way to shop
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Sat, 21 Sep 2002 20:12:16 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Ted Welsh writes:
> In lugnet.general, Matthew Gerber writes:
> > I just ran across this:
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> > http://catalogs.google.com/cathp
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> > I love it when Google sneaks little beta functions into their site without
> > announcing them.
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> Amazon has had a catalog-searching feature like this since the summer. I
> stumbled across it when trying to find Akro-logic and Infinite Divider cases.
> I really like Amazon's implementation: your search string is highlighted on the
> scanned catalog page. Hooray for text recognition software!
Google's does the same...brings up a highlight zoom of the first page in all
catalogs where the searched word appears, with the word boxed out in yellow.
Quite neat...search LEGO if you want to find some new outlets to feed your need.
Could be the same system in place, but I couldn't find it at Amazon. Link?
Matt
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| (...) Amazon has had a catalog-searching feature like this since the summer. I stumbled across it when trying to find Akro-logic and Infinite Divider cases. I really like Amazon's implementation: your search string is highlighted on the scanned (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.storage)
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