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Book Search (very KISS)
- sireat 18y agoWhoever wrote this, did things right by keeping things simple(compared to Amazon's own window shopping application and many others). What amazed me was that the author doesn't appear to have put on affiliate links in those searches (or maybe Amazon tracks the referrals in some other way?).
- Jasber 18y agoI can't tell if the affiliate link is hidden or not. Traditionally Amazon affiliate usernames are "username-20" and as you can see in the URL the pattern does exist, only with a strange username: "_0" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0964729237/_0-20 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0964729237/_0-20
- michael_dorfman 18y agoThat's pretty sweet.
- weegee 18y agoneat. bookfinder.com has worked well for me for 10 years.
- unalone 18y agoThat's quite impressive. I think my favorite simple feature: it doesn't try to build its own search engine. As a result, I could find some of the really hard-to-find items on Amazon, which I doubt a more custom search enging would have done. I also love the title of the site.
- sh1mmer 18y agoI think that's really smart. There isn't much point building your own search engine now unless you are very large. There are normally a few great alternatives with some kind of partnership arrangement out there to use instead.
- Jasber 18y agoThis was actually made by a reddit user: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/7ckzw/dear_reddit_i_wrote_a_new_search_engine_its_like/ http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/7ckzw/dear_reddi...
- tocomment 18y agoHe should advertise that fact on the site. "Made by a Reddit User".
- paraschopra 18y agoSeriously, very, very funny!
- jfno67 18y agoNice, I would just add one thing. Repeat the book title in the title attribute, not just the alt.