Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 13:44:05 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fw: new google literature tool
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> <whitroth at 5-cent.us> 12/19/2010 10:16 AM >>>
>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.

Not surewhat you mean by "single quotes".

A search of mel white artist brings it up as the fourth found item: =
http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Mel._White, and this "mel white" artist brought =
the same item as the 6th found item.

Anyway, I'm sure Google is working on neural interface; all it'll require =
is a little surgery on your part.

mjw