[Web4lib] The Current State Of Full-text Searching in Books

[Lars Aronsson]

Blake Carver wrote:

> Just posted this one to LISNews:
> http://features.lisnews.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/13/1653245
> 
> Scott Boren has a great look at electronic searching of the full-text
> of books. He covers Several Book Search Web Sites, Text Archives for

To that list, one could add the new German website www.zeno.org, 
where you can search several old German encyclopedias.  Try to 
enter "England" and hit Enter.  It looks nice and clean, much 
because it prioritizes hits in headwords above fulltext hits.

When you click a search hit, a text version of the page displays.
If you see something like [43=>] and click that, you get a scanned 
page display instead.  Or look for the word "Faksimiles:" near the 
bottom of the page.

This is a new service from the people at DirectMedia/Zenodot in 
Berlin, who also produce the German Wikipedia on DVD.



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