Google Books [was: "Ice cream" from 1735?]

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 1/2/07, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>
> Good heavens!  Have there been any authoritative complaints?  Or very
> public negative publicity?  ((and I don't mean Internet blogs,
> I  mean the NYTimes or Wall Street Journal, or the major cooperating
> universities.)  Even with false positives and false negatives from
> Early American Newspapers, one can determine the issue (not simply
> the page number in some unknown year!)

Jan Freeman of the Boston Globe (with some prompting from me) warned
about this problem in a blog post and in one of her weekly columns:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/brainiac/2006/10/googlespooked.html
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/11/05/not_the_same_old_grind/
(second item, "Google Gulled")


--Ben Zimmer

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