Search Full-Text within 4M+ Books The Open Library Blog A web page for every book Skip to content About « Star Ratings are Here! Google Summer of Code 2018 » Search Full-Text within 4M+ Books By mek | Published: July 14, 2018 Open Library now lets you search inside the text contents of over 4M books! A Full-Text Search for “thanks for all the fish” on openlibrary.org What’s Full-Text Search? Many book websites, like Amazon and Goodreads, give you the ability to search for books by title and author, but they don’t make it easy to find books based on their contents. This type of searching is called “Full-Text Search”. Try searching for “brewster kahle alexa internet” on Goodreads or Amazon: A search for “brewster kahle alexa internet” on goodreads A search for “brewster kahle alexa internet” on amazon books Have you ever heard a quote and wished you could figure out which book it came from? Open Library full-text search gives readers the ability to locate books which reference any snippet of text like, “Let every thing have its place“: A full-text search on openlibrary.org of “let every thing have its place” Full-Text Search on Archive.org I’ve been surprised to learn how many people didn’t know that Archive.org has had full-text search for several years — and its really powerful! In 2016, Giovanni Damiola (@giovannidamiola) led a major overhaul of Internet Archive’s full-text search system and unlocked the ability for users to perform full-text searches across almost 40M unique text documents — from patents, to yearbooks, to open-access research papers. How to activate Full-Text Search mode on Archive.org   Full-Text Search of the quote “let every thing have its place” on Archive.org Open Library Full-Text Search When you search across 40M documents, it can be a challenge to find the one you’re looking for. One feature which Open Library has been missing is a way to limit Internet Archive’s full-text search to only include results from books on Open Library. So for the last two years, Open Library has patiently waited to take full advantage of full-text search for its users. Earlier this week, Gio released an improvement to our full-text search engine which lets us get around this historical limitation — and so we jumped on this opportunity to improve our search on openlibrary.org! With the help of Razzi Abuissa, Open Library volunteer, and Mek, Open Library’s project lead, you can now search inside more than 4M Open Library books. Try a Full-Text Search Thanks for all the fish! …Wait, what book was that from again?   This entry was posted in Search. Bookmark the permalink. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed. « Star Ratings are Here! Google Summer of Code 2018 » 3 Comments Anton Posted July 14, 2018 at 2:08 pm | Permalink Great! Thanks a lot for making this happen. Kathleen Gallagher Posted August 18, 2018 at 2:49 am | Permalink Still enjoying the fish after all these years. One of the best books ever. Compare to”The Sirens of Titan”. Jennifer Omorodion Posted August 25, 2018 at 7:57 pm | Permalink Interesting!!! Beautiful organisation of the web. Keep improving and creating these impressive user friendly atmosphere. One Trackback By Search Full-Text within 4M+ Books | DrWeb's Domain on August 23, 2018 at 3:12 pm […] Source: Search Full-Text within 4M+ Books […] Search Recent Posts Importing your Goodreads & Accessing them with Open Library’s APIs On Bookstores, Libraries & Archives in the Digital Age Amplifying the voices behind books Giacomo Cignoni: My Internship at the Internet Archive Google Summer of Code 2020: Adoption by Book Lovers Archives Archives Select Month December 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 May 2020 November 2019 October 2019 January 2019 October 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 March 2018 December 2017 October 2016 June 2016 May 2016 February 2016 January 2016 November 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 April 2013 January 2013 August 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 Theme customized from Thematic Theme Framework.