08-14-2008, 04:27 PM | #1 | |
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Unified Search Engine - The ball is in motion
I have sent this to a number of eBook sellers which I found via the wiki
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08-14-2008, 04:31 PM | #2 |
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that's a great effort gianfranco, thanks ! let us know the responses you get.
you might want to encrypt (spell AT instead of @ for example) or remove your email address though, if you don't want to get lots of spam. |
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That would be great. It would be very nice if the search engine would display the prices, so that we could make compare them.
Humm... Maybe the publishers wouldn't like that |
08-15-2008, 03:25 PM | #5 |
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Thanks!
I didn't know this existed, however, searching using some general keywords don't seem to give any hits. This includes titles which are available at stores like eBookMall, fictionwise etc. I have got some positive responses from the contacted ebook sellers, and I have a good feeling about this. No matter how the ebook sellers change their sites, as long as the API is the same, the UESE (Unified Ebook Search Engine) should work like a charm. It would also be very easy to add new eBook sellers to the engine. |
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08-15-2008, 03:55 PM | #6 |
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I think it is a smashing idea, but I hope "UESE" is either a really funny word in Italian or Swedish or just a temporary term for your project. It doesn't really roll off the tongue.
I suggest you put up a MR thread/poll looking for a good name, something like BEST (Borderless Ebook Search Tool) or even PEST (Perfect Ebook Search Tool) although the latter will have some negative psychological implications. 's catchy, though. |
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pester –verb (used with object) 1. to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems. 2. Obsolete. to overcrowd. [Origin: 1530–40; perh. aph. var. of empester, impester to tangle, encumber (though pester is found earlier than these 2 words) < MF empestrer to hobble, entangle < VL *impāstōriāre to hobble, equiv. to im- im-1 + pāstōri(a) a hobble, n. use of L pāstōrius of a herdsman or shepherd + -āre inf. suffix (see pastor); I guess the English nicked it from you guys, but I wonder where the hobbling herdsman comes in? Seriously though, do a thread/poll. I'm sure there's enough creativity in this community to come up with something really cool. Last edited by acidzebra; 08-15-2008 at 04:50 PM. |
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08-15-2008, 04:50 PM | #9 |
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Well, I'll be quite tangled up in the project itself, but you seem keen on the whole name thing
Would you consider taking care of that part? |
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heh, yes, complaining is a national sport here (along with going on strike, and watching people from café terrasses). sometimes i like to do a little gratuitous complaining when it's not merited just to keep a hand in.
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08-15-2008, 06:15 PM | #13 |
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It would be nice if name-specific posts where kept in the name thread I'll post progress information and such here
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BTW If your taking suggestions (i'm sure you've thought of these already) - Make sure to include public domain sites like manybooks, feedbooks, gutenberg. And also the free audio site. - Integration with Firefox search engines. That is all for now =X= |
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That's interesting. Back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, I wrote a "shareware" eBook viewer called "Bookworm" for the very first generation of Windows CE machines!
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