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Posted on August 9, 2010August 9, 2010 by elmer

Google’s Book Count Not Really a Book Count Per Se

But the problem with Googles count, as is clear from the GBS count post itself, is that GBSs metadata collection is a riddled with errors of every sort. Or, as linguist and GBS critic Goeff Nunberg put it last year in a blog post, Googles metadata is “train wreck: a mish-mash wrapped in a muddle wrapped in a mess.”

via Googles count of 130 million books is probably bunk.

Good article pointing out the problems with 130,000,000 books number  put out in a Google blog post last week. The bottom line is that the number represents Google’s best guess at a count of what it considers books based on flawed and incomplete meta data records it has on hand. As relayed to us by a software engineer.

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This the personal blog of Elmer Masters. I’ve been blogging since October 2000, mostly for my own amusement. I am a web developer, IT manager, and occasional consultant. I’ve managed IT departments at a couple of law schools, and started my professional career as a reference law librarian while working my way through law school. These days I’m the chief technologist for a consortium of US law schools. Opinions expressed here are my own and not those of my employer.

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