How Google Book Search Got Lost

Re:How Google Book Search Got Lost by greglindahl on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:30PM (#14090363)

If you'd like to see an example of what innovative things you can do with book contents:

https://blog.archive.org/2016/02/09/how-will-we-explore-book...

https://books.archivelab.org/dateviz/

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Re:How Google Book Search Got Lost by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:05PM (#14091326)

I'm not that impressed, am i missing something? Looks like pre-indexed search matched with full-text search??

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Re:How Google Book Search Got Lost by greglindahl on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:16PM (#14091439)

It's an index of concepts that appear in a sentence with dates. The blog post shows an example of how this type of index surfaces important dates for the concept 'Gregorian Calendar'.

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