Google Books Is At Heart A Catalogue Of Errors
joseph harris <[email protected]>
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Google Books Is At Heart A Catalogue Of Errors
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/35953-37682
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=418378&c=1
'...The tragedy for scholars was that Google Books' metadata - which allow users to search the catalogue - were "a mishmash wrapped in a muddle wrapped in a mess"....'
'...He went on to have a good deal of fun with the many strange anomalies: 115 hits for Greta Garbo and 325 for Woody Allen in books said to date from before they were born; editions of/Jane Eyre/ classified under history or antiques and collectibles; Sigmund Freud listed as an author of a guide to an internet interface....'
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