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Searching within the book 

Google's Google Print feature is now online, in Beta. This feature allows you to search within the fulltext books that Google has archived so far. I searched my name and found it mentioned in UM journalism professor Bruce Garrison's 1996 Book, Computer-Assisted Reporting, and in a long-ago encyclopedia of the West (!).
Here's what you get when you search Miami Herald + Gene Miller. When you click on the link (unless the page or book is restricted) you get the image of the page the search appears on.
This feature is similar to the 'search within the book' feature that Amazon.com introduced a year or so ago. Between the two, this may make even more books searchable.
Note you will have to be registered on Google (as a Gmail user, or otherwise) to use the service, but it's free (so far).
(Via Doc Searls.)

posted by liz at 4:51 PM