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Google eBook store search fail

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Dec 7, 2010 — 1 min read

I can feel the Force; but not in Google’s ebook store.
They somehow managed to loose their mojo, i.e. “search engine functionality”.

In first picture there is a result to “Eugene Ionescu” query (not “Ionesco”). You can see on the second position “The Paltinis Diary” by Gabriel Liiceanu. So far, so good! But there is no possible correlation between the query and this very result!

The bad follows: if you search for “Gabriel Liiceanu” as an exact match of the previous query result, you get this:

What you see means you don’t get the correct result that was incorrectly returned on the previous query.

I don’t remember another instance of such a terrible Google search engine behavior. But, there’s a first time for everything!

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