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More Fun from Google

Google's got another new feature that they've been quietly developing. It looks like a direct competitor to Amazon's search inside a book feature.

This feature allows you to search the contents of books for words or phrases and provides links to online booksellers. Actually, the "contents" being searched look like publisher-provided excerpts, not complete book contents (as on Amazon), but expect that to change in the future. In their faq, Google states that their "mission is to provide access to all the world's information" and they recognize that "not all the world's information is already on the Internet." This sounds like Google is looking to eventually become the world's online library. Given current copyright law, how they do this will be quite interesting.

To see this feature in action, try a couple of examples: frodo baggins site:print.google.com or bah humbug site:print.google.com. Or, type your own phrase along with "site:print.google.com" into a google search window.