[Foundation-l] Ensuring veracity of articles based on print sources

Walter van Kalken walter at vankalken.net
Wed Oct 4 04:46:39 UTC 2006


James Hare wrote:

>For those books not mentioned in Google, we would of course do our best to
>compile a list. Then once the list is made, knowing Google, it would only be
>a matter of time that the list of old books would be listed on Google,
>therefore making my testing mechanism work.
>
>If we were to compile a list of these books, we'd probably have to protect
>these pages from editing to prevent misuse/fraud.
>
Apart from the english languaged world there is a whole world of books 
printed in 100's of other languages and 10's of different scripts. As 
soon as you look at things outside of the Western world google becomes 
extremely flawed.

Waerth



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