Let's google Gogol!

[Chris Tessone]

Not to mention that Latin "Gogol" contains several orders of magnitude
more references to Jhumpa Lahiri's novel "The Namesake" than the
Russian results do, among many other things.

Chris

On 2/20/06, Alina Israeli <aisrael at american.edu> wrote:
> >Colleagues,
> >Here are the results of a Google search for another famous writer on
> >Google.com (Roman alphabet) and Google.ru (Cyrillic):
> >
> >Gogol on Google.com - 2,870,000 hits
> >
> >Гоголь on Google.ru - 1,360,000 hits
> >
>
> That's because Russian is included into English but not in reverse. I
> did the Gogol /Гоголь search, and the #1 item in the Roman Gogol was
>
>
> Публичная электронная библиотека: Николай Васильевич Гоголь.(Russian)
> Николай Васильевич Гоголь. Сверка произведена по "Собранию сочинений
> Н.В.Гоголя в семи томах" (Москва, Художественная литература, 1967).
> Евгений Пескин ...
> public-library.narod.ru/Gogol.Nikolai/ - 7k - Сохранено в кэше -
> Похожие страницы
>
> because it has the Latinized Gogol in the URL, as do most Russian sites.
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