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When visiting Amazon recently, I found that — besides the new website layout — they had a new feature called “Statistically Improbable Phrases” or short SIPs. As soon as you select a book page then you see a section with phrases if the feature “Search Inside” is enabled. This feature finds phrases in the books from A9 search and shows phrases which aren’t found in many other books. An amazing feature although I have no idea what to do with it. It seems to me that it is primarily intended for peopleto scan those other references and buy these similar books. And, by-the-way, they need to change the term they use as it seems that these phrases are very probably…