Google's Library of Babel, Redux
Last week we posted a piece asking whether the errors that pop up in Google’s book scans–“it seems doubtful that Zarathustra spake thus: ‘Full^is_£arth of superfluous ones….'”–make Google’s books a library of Babel. We asked whether readers thought this is a huge problem, or something we can ignore. The post sparked a heated argument between two readers, someone posting as “wmartin46” and blogger Mike Cane.
After explaining his understanding of how Google’s OCR software works (and he points out that Google has the best text-recognition software in the buinsess) “wMartin46” admits “The error rate for the .epub/text
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