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Google Book Search Says Goodbye To Harry

Google Book Search has dealt with Indian manuscripts, Japanese universities, and Belgian libraries - interesting stuff, but not exactly in line with mainstream America’s tastes.  Now Google Book Search is directing a nod - more of a bow, really - to Harry Potter.

With Or Without Harry, Amazon Stock Soars

So Harry Potter was the cause of Amazon's tripling profit? What will they do when there are no more books coming out? They'll be just fine, because that's not what happened, the New York Times just sort of made it sound that way.

Hillary's Cleavage Hotter Than Harry Potter Online

And so it approaches, the final installment, the closure of the tale of a boy wizard. Just after midnight, the world will go quietly into its bedrooms and begin. The Deathly Hallows, and the silence that comes with are an ironic crescendo to the Internet and press hysteria of the past week.

Vizu Polls Get Google Maps

Vizu’s polls carry the tagline, “See What the World Thinks,” and some traditional bar graphs have been enough to back up that claim.  But thanks to a new development that involves Google Maps, users can now view votes according to their geographic location.

Harry Potter's Emma Watson Does Well In Searches

A new movie, the last book - it’s Harry Potter time again, and Internet traffic in the UK seems to reflect as much.  Yet, surprisingly, it’s Emma Watson, and not Daniel Radcliffe, who nabbed the (Gryffindor) lion’s share of searches.

Harry Potter Pre-Orders Set Record

Amazon.com has announced that pre-orders for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" the seventh and final book in the series, has reached over a million copies in the U.S.

eBay Hexed By Harry Potter

Unauthorized electronic copies of books in J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' series have appeared in auctions on eBay's India site; the author has won an unprecedented injunction against eBay that will require the company to look for those works in its auctions and remove them.