Amazon.com today lauched a full content search covering 33 million pages and 120,000 books. It is Amazon.com only at the minute, but is a really interesting idea.
Essentially it is a challenge to the dominance of Google in terms of an interface to the knowledge in the world. Google may be the webpage search engine of choice, but most of the world's knowledge is still in books. Now that is available from amazon.com, though only at a page at a time, but this might be sufficient to offer up some thing sufficiently different from Google. Certainly for something other than tech subjects Amazon might have cornered a market.
Thanks to Ben Hammersley for the pointer.
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If you merely try it a few times the deep value of this service starts to sink in. Read More
While I wouldn't say that the vast majority of knowledge is in obscure printed catalogs, Google's (obscure) Catalog search is terribly fascinating and boggling. Imagine this applied to books:
http://catalogs.google.com/catalogs?q=voltage+adapter