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Old 08-04-2014, 01:54 PM   #620
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@Vortex If you chose the text on which to search then it's highly likely that its not truly random - you would have used your intuitive good sense. I noticed your example used a complete sentence. I tried a fragment of 9 words from Bleak House and Google failed, when I expanded it to a complete sentence it succeeded.

I suspect a PI with some heuristics to extract the first sentence would probably have a pretty good chance of finding books at Google.
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Longer sentences are more successful. Shouldn't be to difficult to automate picking a random sentence of a minimum length. I found the first sentence isn't the best to use because it is often quoted in other places which can make the results confusing, also how would a program know what's the first sentence, many books have other stuff like reviews for the authors other books at the beginning.

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The Amazon and Bookfinder links did not present me with a place to enter a sentence.
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For Amazon the best search page is: http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Searc...node=241582011 paste your random text (inside quotation marks) into the 'Keywords' box and search.

This same technique can also be used in Bookfinder: http://www.bookfinder.com/?mode=adva...=&currency=EUR
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