amascore

amascore

Definition

amascore is a scoring engine that tries to find the best works (books, CDs, movies) on amazon by analysing customer ratings and popularity of the works.

The score works best for broad searches where you get 100+ results.

Examples

A sample query for amascore would be

• What is the best book on Java?
• What is the best book on Content Management?
• What is the best book on Knowledge Management?
• What is the best Jazz CDs?
• http://www.fr135.de/redirect.jsp?to=http://www.amascore.com/query.jsp?keywords=Jazz&productType=Music

Further reading

For more information see

• Overview:
• (in German): http://www.amascore.de/about_de.html
• (in English): http://www.amascore.de/about.html
• FAQ: http://www.amascore.de/faq_de.html (in German)

Known issues

The amascore engine is currently in beta testing. Please tell us if you have any problems.

• If the Amazon web service is not available (and we have not cached the result) you get no warning and no results.
• If you use IE 6 cookies have to be enabled. All other browsers should work even if cookies are disabled.
• The "Show Score-Price-Space" does not work in certain browsers (e.g. Opera, IE5). Until this is fixed I recommend Firefox, Safari or IE 6.