From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Girl remembers nothing but an SF story
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:02:11 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> As for finding the book a search of Google using a random line from
> the novel (as found on Amazon) has Amazon coming up first.  One
> needs to do a "repeat the search with the omitted results included"
> to get the Google Books results

It doesn't matter which page comes up, just so long as whatever comes
up makes it possible to identify the book from a random snippet of text.

That was a lot harder before search engines such as Google.  It's a
good thing that a certain former WSFA member didn't succeed in getting
Google outlawed.

Searching on *pictures* isn't yet possible.  There was a recent query
in the rec.arts.sf.written newsgroup.  Someone wanted to know what
book the painting at
http://web.mit.edu/kevinr/Public/IMG_0324.JPG
appeared on the cover of.  (The person asking was the artist.
I guess he doesn't keep good notes.)

> Hope things work out for her.

CNN is saying that she has been identified and is to be reuinited with
her family in Washington State -- and that the person who identified
her was a CNN viewer in Maryland (!).