..new Amazon option..

Thu May 5 20:25:37 UTC 2005

For some, the following tool might be a useful search option for
words/phrases in books at Amazon.com.  For 'selected' books, a "Search
inside this book" option can be used to search for occurrences of
words/phrases.  Where an SIP (Statistically Improbably Phrases) is
listed, it is usually linked to other books that are in the program.

The search option is not available for all Amazon.com books.

George Cole
Shippensburg University
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Story in Wired:
http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,67430,00.html

Additional story, with examples:
http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/02/sociologically-improbable-phrases