Isolating Google's Printed Material in a Google Search Form

This form doesn't work any more since Google has separated out its Google Print material from its main search engine index.

Google has digitized a certain amount of printed material and made it available via regular Web search. Magazine articles have articleid in the URL. Book excerpts have ISBN in the URL. This quick search makes it possible to narrow your search to exclusively book excerpts, magazine articles, or both in the Google search engine. Give it a whirl. This form doesn't require an API key.

Search Google's Printed Material Archive

Please provide a couple of keywords you want to find in the book excerpts/magazine articles:

What kind of material do you want to search for?

Magazine articles Book excerpts Both

When you click search you'll be taken to a Google results page.

BONUS: The Wacky ISBN/Magazine Article Monitoring Revue

There have been so many things going on with ISBN lately (Do you read Catalogablog? You ought to) that I wanted to pitch in an idea.

I cooked up a little bookmarklet. Click on it and enter an ISBN and your e-mail address, and it'll take you to a Google Alerts form that'll be filled out to monitor Google Print for the ISBN/excerpt of your choice. This'll be more useful as Google starts adding more excerpt material to its index. The bookmarklet should work with both IE/Netscape.

Use this bookmarklet to monitor Google's book excerpts for a given ISBN.

As long as we're here, wanna monitor Google's magazine articles for the keyword of your choice? Okie; here's another bookmarklet. Again, this should work with IE/Netscape.

Monitor Google's magazine articles for a given keyword.

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