Amazon’s Reviews Are Now Searchable
Amazon.com has made its 10-year-old database of consumer reviews completely searchable!
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Amazon.com has made its 10-year-old database of consumer reviews completely searchable!
Users around the world have done a lot with the APIs provided by the likes of Google, Yahoo, and Amazon; one site delivers a RSS feed of mashups, so no one has to miss out on the next one to come along.
The search appliances from Google have moved with the times, as the company boosts their capacity to meet the demand of their enterprise customers.
Once an old iPod story on kottke.org got Dugg, visitors streamed to the story; then Slashdot picked up the story and the fun really began.
There should have been "one more thing" to Steve Jobs keynote at MacWorld the other day, but one noted Mac writer said a well-placed Apple polisher told him the black-turtlenecked one's speech had to be adjusted at the last minute.
Digg.com is a geek paradise. The top story this morning asked "Remember Dungeons and Dragons 80's cartoon?" I thought, "no. No I don't." But it's been "dugg" over a thousand times. Somebody remembers. In fact, it's a collection of somebodies, the same somebodies who helped populate the top 100 Digg.com stories of 2005. The results are fascinating---and telling.