Search Inside the Book
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/10197021/25th of October 2003
Amazon has added a wicked feature to their site. You can now search for words inside the books. That's like being able to search a library just like Google searches the web.
According to to this blob at Metafilter you can search some 33 million words. The blob also mentions some shortcomings of the feature which you'd expect.
Here's Jeff Bezos official announcement
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