Cool things with Google

Did you know Google has digitized several thousand books? This is a constant and ever-growing iniatiative...and this is an awesome thing.

The other day I forgot to bring my textbook to school. I had a quiz over the reading. I needed to look up a couple keywords in the 486 page text. Even if I had the book think how long it would take me to find that particular combination of text!

Provided Google has digitized the book your interested in users can do a full-text search of the ENTIRE book. I was able to do a couple queries and boom...I was able to find the particular page, particular context, and voila...the answer!!

Here's a link to the Google Book Search. I linked to the advanced search for a good reason. You'll want the advanced page so you can enter the book title or author title. This is a must if you plan to search for a combination of keywords "in your book". Keywords go to the top (blue) area, book specs go in the boxes below (white area).

Yeah...I know my last blog post was in the fall. Opportunities to keep this thing up to date are limited.