9 Mar
2006
9 Mar
'06
11:43 p.m.
On Thursday 09 March 2006 11:05 am, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
but what _is_ different, and undeniably so, is that google has a _huge_ corpus of text <snip> the information about the world represented by _billions_ of web-pages out in cyberspace could lead to the gleaning of vast knowledge. (so much so that it could become very scary.)
I can see this revealing (or at least quantifying) the disturbingly high rate of spelling and grammatical errors. Billions and billions of them, to paraphrase Sagan, or more likely (with sincere apologies to Kubrick) ... "My God ... it's full of shit." Speaking of the web, of course. :)