Journal: News & Comment

Thursday, December 20, 2001
# 4:30:00 PM:

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Consuming conspicuously

I love catalogs (or "catalogues," if you insist on the Canadian-British-Australian spelling). Now Google has a whole bunch of them available online -- actual colour scans of the real paper pages. But you can search them, which is even better than in the original printed versions.

So if you'd like to check out the Sharper Image catalog, for instance, but don't have one handy, Google is the place. No wonder Web usability expert Jakob Nielsen thinks it's the most useful site on the Internet.

Incidentally, Catalog City has been doing something similar for a long time.

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