Let's google Gogol!

[Michael Denner]

Colleagues, 

These tests by Googling a term are a standard practice -- with its own heuristic -- on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is, say what you will about its reliability, one of the most intriguing (and, I would argue, most important) demonstrations of new technologies and new models of epistemology out there. 

Anyway, one of the basic tests that the site uses to determine the validity or authenticity of an article or claim is called the Google Test, and many of the points made (and missed) in this thread are discussed, in detail, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_test

Best,
mad

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-----Original Message-----
From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 2:27 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: [SEELANGS] Let's google Gogol!

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

Again, food for thought.  My eyes are gogolized, as N would have said.

Cheers,

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

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