Amazon.com announced the launch of its latest innovation for customers, Search Inside the Book, an entirely new way for customers to find and discover books by searching the full text inside them, not just matches to author or title keywords.

In collaboration with publishers, Amazon.com is enabling customers to find books at Amazon.com based on every word inside more than 120,000 books -- more than 33 million pages of searchable text. Customers can also preview the inside text of these books. Search Inside the Book is integrated into Amazon.com's standard search and includes books from all genres. >from *Amazon.Com Launches "Search Inside the Book" Enabling Customers to Discover Books by Searching and Previewing the Text Inside. Leading-Edge Search Technology Delivers a Book-Buying Experience Previously Unavailable in the Physical or Online Worlds*. October 23, 2003

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Google Print program: "Google's mission is to provide access to all the world's information and make it universally useful and accessible. It turns out that not all the world's information is already on the Internet, so Google has been experimenting with a number of publishers to test their content online. During this trial, publishers' content is hosted by Google and is ranked in our search results according to the same technology we use to evaluate websites.

Pages that are part of the Google Print program are identified with print.google.com/print at the beginning of their URLs and have an "About Google Print" link at the bottom of each page. These pages are also clearly marked in Google's search results with a [BOOK - BETA] tag." From Google Print (beta) http://print.google.com/print/faq.html