{"id":21,"date":"2005-05-12T11:52:32","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T15:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2005-05-12T11:52:45","modified_gmt":"2005-05-12T15:52:45","slug":"interesting-amazoncom-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/12\/interesting-amazoncom-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Amazon.com features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was rolled out a few months ago, but I must have missed it.  Amazon searches the text of some of the books it sells, analyzes it, and publishes various metrics.  The last book I read was Neal Stephenson&#8217;s <em>Cryptonomicon<\/em>, so that will be the example.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0060512806\/ref=sip_top_dp\/002-2962572-6086441?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#038;v=glance#sipbody\">Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs)<\/a>:<br \/>\ngrand wazir, substitution alphabet, data haven, hive mind, dive plan<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/sitb-next\/0060512806\/ref=sbx_con\/002-2962572-6086441?%5Fencoding=UTF8#concordance\">Concordance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/sitb-next\/0060512806\/ref=sbx_txt\/002-2962572-6086441?%5Fencoding=UTF8#textstats\">Other text stats<\/a> like:<br \/>\nWords\/Dollar: 50,204<br \/>\nSyllables\/Word: 1.5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was rolled out a few months ago, but I must have missed it. Amazon searches the text of some of the books it sells, analyzes it, and publishes various metrics. The last book I read was Neal Stephenson&#8217;s Cryptonomicon, so that will be the example. Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): grand wazir, substitution alphabet, data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nice-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}