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Is it just me or is their bookstore search awful? I've tried various programming subjects (software, software engineering, computer graphics, etc.) and always g

by sgift 16y ago

Is it just me or is their bookstore search awful? I've tried various programming subjects (software, software engineering, computer graphics, etc.) and always get results like "Report of the 55th National Conference on Weights and Measures 1970" or "Veterans' Administration FY 1988 budget"

techtalsky 16y ago
Yeah, it has some remarkable similarities to Google Video.
galactus 16y ago
Same for me
- mian2zi3 16y ago
  Same here. And no advanced search?
grav1tas 16y ago
If it's anything like the Android App Store search on my phone, I think I'll stick with my Kindle, or real books. I'm confused how a company that made search work so well has such poor offerings for things like my apps or these books. What gives?
- nodata 16y ago
  +1 Android App search is terrible. Now this bookstore is too. You'd think Google could get search right.
  - influx 16y ago
    GMail search is awful as well.
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benmccann 16y ago
Maybe it was a temporary problem. I did a search for machine learning and the results look fine to me: http://books.google.com/ebooks?q=machine+learning http://books.google.com/ebooks?q=machine+learning
- ojilles 16y ago
  Depends on your definition of "fine", here's the first 7 results from that URL: - Library of Congress 1993 - Library of Congress subject headings 1980 - Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series 1962 - Mezzofanti's System of Learning Languages Applied to the Study of French. (Close, but no cigar) - Wildlife and oceans in a changing climate - Occupational outlook handbook
  - endtime 16y ago
    That's not what I see at Ben's link - the results I see are completely relevant: Machine learning - Kai-Zhu Huang, Hai-Qin Yang, Irwin King Machine learning techniques for multimedia - Matthieu Cord, Pádraig Cunningham Advances in machine learning applications in software engineering - Du Zhang, Jeffrey J.-P. Tsai Machine learning in cyber trust - Jeffrey J. P. Tsai Machine learning for multimedia content analysis - Yihong Gong, Wei Xu Data analysis, machine learning and applications - Christine Preisach Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition - Petra Perner
    - ojilles 16y ago
      Interesting, it hints at some "machine learning"/"behavioural targeting" on Google's end then.
      - zargon 16y ago
        The search excludes books that are not available for sale in your region, which probably includes everywhere outside the U.S.
  - rb2k_ 16y ago
yafujifide 16y ago
Same here. Searching for books I already own on Kindle returns completely different books unrelated to the book I am searching for. Searching for author and title does not help. For instance, searching for "probability theory sivia" returns books on biology, the JFK assassination, fish oil, "standards and expectations", theatre, etc., and one book on "Le raisonnemet bayesien" which may have something to do with probability theory. But it does not return the book on probability theory by Sivia. Edit: See for yourself: http://books.google.com/ebooks?as_brr=5&q=probability+theory+sivia&as_sub= http://books.google.com/ebooks?as_brr=5&q=probability+th...

by sgift 16y ago

techtalsky 16y ago

Yeah, it has some remarkable similarities to Google Video.

galactus 16y ago

Same for me

mian2zi3 16y ago
Same here. And no advanced search?

grav1tas 16y ago

If it's anything like the Android App Store search on my phone, I think I'll stick with my Kindle, or real books. I'm confused how a company that made search work so well has such poor offerings for things like my apps or these books. What gives?

nodata 16y ago
+1 Android App search is terrible. Now this bookstore is too. You'd think Google could get search right.
- influx 16y ago
  GMail search is awful as well.

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benmccann 16y ago

Maybe it was a temporary problem. I did a search for machine learning and the results look fine to me: http://books.google.com/ebooks?q=machine+learning http://books.google.com/ebooks?q=machine+learning

ojilles 16y ago
Depends on your definition of "fine", here's the first 7 results from that URL: - Library of Congress 1993 - Library of Congress subject headings 1980 - Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series 1962 - Mezzofanti's System of Learning Languages Applied to the Study of French. (Close, but no cigar) - Wildlife and oceans in a changing climate - Occupational outlook handbook
- endtime 16y ago
  That's not what I see at Ben's link - the results I see are completely relevant: Machine learning - Kai-Zhu Huang, Hai-Qin Yang, Irwin King Machine learning techniques for multimedia - Matthieu Cord, Pádraig Cunningham Advances in machine learning applications in software engineering - Du Zhang, Jeffrey J.-P. Tsai Machine learning in cyber trust - Jeffrey J. P. Tsai Machine learning for multimedia content analysis - Yihong Gong, Wei Xu Data analysis, machine learning and applications - Christine Preisach Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition - Petra Perner
  - ojilles 16y ago
    Interesting, it hints at some "machine learning"/"behavioural targeting" on Google's end then.
    - zargon 16y ago
      The search excludes books that are not available for sale in your region, which probably includes everywhere outside the U.S.
- rb2k_ 16y ago

yafujifide 16y ago

Same here. Searching for books I already own on Kindle returns completely different books unrelated to the book I am searching for. Searching for author and title does not help. For instance, searching for "probability theory sivia" returns books on biology, the JFK assassination, fish oil, "standards and expectations", theatre, etc., and one book on "Le raisonnemet bayesien" which may have something to do with probability theory. But it does not return the book on probability theory by Sivia. Edit: See for yourself: http://books.google.com/ebooks?as_brr=5&q=probability+theory+sivia&as_sub= http://books.google.com/ebooks?as_brr=5&q=probability+th...