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Originally Posted by sic
I used Google's AJAX Search to do the embedding - which is way better than the search box that ebooksearchr is using.
The advantage of this approach is that you can combine search results from the custom search engine with results from Google's own book search.
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looks like competition
well, intermingling the search results using the google ajax api is nice!
no, we don't do it here at eBook Searchr for now
EDIT: hmm... for some reason my 2 previous replies to neko did not appear yet, guess they are stuck in the moderation queue. Strangely, this post appeared immediately without being moderated. Is it because the two previous replies were more verbose and therefore wait for moderation?
ok, then i'll try again here... first thanks neko for the hint!
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Originally Posted by nekokami
That's an unfortunate example.
1 - The book isn't even out yet, so anything found on this search is going to be bogus, as in, a fake
2 - We know there won't be a legal ebook, so I can't think of a better way of shouting "go here for pirated copies!" Are you really looking to get shut down that fast?
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1) yes, this was indeed very unfortunate. I didn't know that the new Harry Potter title is not officially out yet. Changed the previous post to some programming ebook and a generic Harry Potter search.
2) the intent of eBook Searchr is to find ANY source for the ebook title you are searching, no matter if from an official bookstore or from other more or less legal sources. However, you can restrict your search to the official ebook stores by clicking the
Commercial category after you issued the search, or you can search only "alternative" sources by clicking the
NonCommercial category.
(alternatively you can search directly in official bookstores only by adding the "more:commercial" keyword to your search, e.g.
“Eragon more:commercial”)
@uncleduke: agree!
@hadrien: by now I added several more official bookstores, maybe the results are better now. I guess we (ebooksearchr + digitalreading) are both adding more sources constantly, any suggestions are highly appreciated!
-chunka