Book search...

Book Search on Google: Google Book Search is a facility provided by Google. Web users can provide the text of a book for Google to search. Google search engine performs the service by searching for the full text of books, to find the ones that the web user is looking for. Google search book also provides information on where to get the books.

When Google finds a match for the search terms provided by the user, it displays it on the search result page. Google book search locates books, primarily from libraries and publishers. The results displayed on the search page, provide some basic information about the book, and some scraps of text from the books. Google can also give a few pages from the book, provided it has the publisher or author’s permission to do so. If the book is past its copyright period, users can page through the entire book from the result page.

Generally publishers and authors promote their books by getting involved in the ‘Google Books Partner Program’. This is an online book-marketing program that lets Google display a few sample pages from the books. This helps publishers and authors market their books.

Another book search program offered by Google is ‘Google Books Library Project’, which is a comprehensive card catalog of the world’s books. This project includes the collection of a number of libraries in its book search. It provides a comprehensive, searchable, virtual card catalog type of information about the book being searched for, and a few sentences of the search term in its context.

Book Search Engine: Many book search engines are available on the net. Users are required to enter certain relevant key words to assist the search engine to look for books. The search category may include the title, the ISBN, the author or a keyword. Certain book search engines like ‘AddALL’, provide users the choice of currency to display the cost of the book. Successful book search engines make use of search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to generate maximum hits. SEO techniques help a website to become more accessible to search engines.

Used Books Search: Used book search refers to searching for second hand books. This also includes rare and out-of-print textbooks. There are various online used bookstores available on the Internet. Used book search engines are specifically designed to search for used books from used bookstores linked to them. Some examples of used book search engines include ‘UsedBookSearch’ , ‘BibliOZ’, ‘Books & Collectibles’, and ‘Amazon’.

Used book sites are widely available on the Internet. There are a variety of categories covered under used book sites and stores. One such site is Kelly Blue, which gives used car values, and information for buying and selling them.

Phone Book Search: Phone book search sites seek out the phone numbers of people. These sites may also generate information on public records, such as the address, previous cities they lived in, background report, address history, bankruptcy and liens, and relatives. These sites may also engender a criminal check on the person being investigated. ‘Intellius’ is a good phone book search site. Users are required to fill in certain search keys, like the first and last name of a person, the city or state. The search is performed based on these keys provided.