Amazon hobbles full text search

November 3, 2003

The Register. By Jan Libbenga. Nov. 3, 2003.

Amazon.com quietly changed its recently introduced book-searching feature, following concerns by some authors that users could also print out several pages surrounding the places where the phrase appears. Printing is now disabled.

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