A new version of AWS was just installed. It contains the following features and fixes:

1. Encoding of the umlaut character (typically found in German language text) has been fixed.
   
   
2. Encoding of some Japanese characters has been fixed.
   
   
3. Availability messages for items in the German and Japanese locales are now returned in the proper language.
   
   
4. A more appropriate SOAP fault string is now returned in case of an error on a BlendedSearch.
   
   
5. The TextStreamSearch and BlendedSearch calls no longer return an error message no results are found for the search.
   
   
6. The results from a BlendedSearch now include a RelevanceRank value for each ProductLine element. An application can sort the results using this value in order to produce results that more closely resemble those found on the Amazon web site.
   
   
7. The TextStreamSearch has been tuned to return results that are more relevant to the given text.

Jeff at Amazon.com