Comments on: Book Review Search

By: first page google

first page google — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:11:15 +0000

Interesting…so, I’m assuming it would work for any web site. For example I have a successful work at home business online, if I apply the same principal it will work for my site as well?

By: Book Reviews Online

Book Reviews Online — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:16:31 +0000

I just saw your amazing site and was impressed with the way it helps with searching for books online. I’ve been looking for something that does this - and I’m happy that you’ve managed to implement it.

Keep it up! Nice site by the way

By: Brian Herzog

Brian Herzog — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:15:46 +0000

Just added Booknotes, C-SPAN’s author interview program, and BookVideos.tv, a website with videos of author interviews and stories.

By: Brian Herzog

Brian Herzog — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:29:57 +0000

Also added two big book vendors, Baker & Taylor and Ingram (but I’m not sure that Ingram is actually working).

By: Brian Herzog

Brian Herzog — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:16:04 +0000

Just added Overbooked.org and Whichbook.net to the search, thanks to this discussion.

By: Brian Herzog

Brian Herzog — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:26:19 +0000

Thanks Jessica - I added http://bfgb.wordpress.com to the book search. And I added your blog to my bloglines account - talk about a rockin' blog.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:16:22 +0000

Howdy,

Stumbled across your blog. It rocks. I have a library-ish blog, too, which you’re welcome to visit: thelesbrarian.com.

If you’d like to add another book review blog to your links, stroll over to http://bfgb.wordpress.com. “Blogging for a Good Book” offers a review per day from your faithful library friends at the Williamsburg Regional Library.

By: Brian Herzog

Brian Herzog — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:41:24 +0000

I’m not sure why the full glory Rage in the Page isn’t available. It might be due to the way Google indexed the site (but since Google runs blogspot.com, I would have thought it would all be available). I will look into it.

In other news, I think I found a way to address the amazon.com problem. Instead of searching all of amazon.com, I am limiting the search to specific phrases in the url - namely:
http://www.amazon.com/*product-description*
http://www.amazon.com/*customer-reviews*
so now only a book review pages (either customer or published) come up.

I also did the same thing for librarything.com (www.librarything.com/review/*) so that only those books that have been reviewed by LT users show up in the search.

This is my first Google Custom Search, and I’m still playing with the settings. I’ll let you know what what progress I make with RitP.

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:30:30 +0000

I tried your custom search engine (they are fun and easy to make, aren’t they?) and oddly enough it will only find 6 Rage in the Page posts. I tried searching for a book I’d reviewed and my review wasn’t among the results. Odd.

But thanks for adding us. Our reviews are fantastic after all.