Search Gets Lost.

AMAZON.COM Inc.; ELECTRONIC publishing; INTERNET searching; ONLINE information services; WEB search engines; INFORMATION resources; ELECTRONIC commerce; INTERNET service providers; EQUIPMENT & supplies

The article discusses multinational electronic commerce company Amazon.com's impact on bookselling and the evolution of its product search technologies. Topics include the utility of Amazon's "Search Inside!" online archives search engine, the incorporation of statistically improbable phrases (SIPs) in searches, and Amazon's eventual reduction of concordances and SIPs. Additional topics include Amazon's new search features which require users to do work that Amazon once provided, and how internet services company Google and other search engines provide search technologies similar to those Amazon once offered.