Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 10:16:38 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fw: new google literature tool
From: whitroth at 5-cent.us
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Mike B. wrote:
> On 12/18/2010 4:24 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:
>>> "Mike B."<yahoo at omniphile.com>  12/18/2010 3:50 PM>>>
>>> On 12/18/2010 3:39 AM, ronkean at juno.com wrote:
>>>> In 500 Billion Words, a New Window on Culture
>>>>
>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/books/17words.html
>>>>
>>>> By PATRICIA COHEN
>>>
>>> Wow!  And just to prove that people never change, the first search I =
>>> put in was for "fuck".  Interesting result too.  Especially if you
>>> extend the time back to 1500.
>>
>> Note the search is case sensitive.
>
> It would be nicer if it used regular expressions.

I wish google as a whole would at least offer single quotes, so that it
does *not* try to interpret what I want, since they're *wrong*. For
example, I'd really like to try to look up an old friend, the artist Mel.
White, and that *is* M-E-L-period.

        mark