Re: Gen: Amazon.com

[Ken Umbach <kumbach@UNLIMITED.NET>]

Don't blame Amazon.  They list 2.5 million books, and I am reasonably sure
do not create the keywords themselves (except possibly for some titles of
special interest -- that I don't know about).  You doubtless can find
lunatic works about alien abduction, ancient astronauts, past-life
regression, and Atlantis listed under various "science" keywords, too.  In
any event, you might want to compare the keyword indexing at Barnes and
Noble, etc., before focusing on Amazon as a bad guy.

Ken

At 03:08 AM 3/4/98 EST, you wrote:
>Hello everyone:
>
>I subscribe to another list (yeah, can you beleive how much stuff I have to
>read?) where I read an interesting post yesterday about Amazon.com.
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