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[Joel S. Berson]

As does Early American Newspapers -- not infrequent both false
positives and false negatives.

Joel

At 10/5/2007 12:19 PM, you wrote:
>I or someone else may have already metioned that Google and Google
>Books occasionally exhibit the same problem.
>
>   JL
>
>George Thompson <george.thompson at NYU.EDU> wrote:
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>Poster: George Thompson
>Subject: Re: Newspaperarchive.com
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>I don't have access to Newspaper Archive, but I find that neither
>the Proquest Historical Newspapers or the Readex America's
>Historical Newspapers are reliable, in that both too frequently fail
>to find item that are in fact in their files. Frequently, I have had
>a story that has interested me, and I have searched for some
>distinctive word or some name in it, and whatever results I get do
>not include the story I started from.
>
>GAT
>
>George A. Thompson
>Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre",
>Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Barry A. Popik"
>Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2007 5:45 pm
>Subject: Re: Newspaperarchive.com
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> > Never heard about that.
> > ...
> > I was looking for "club sandwich" recently and couldn't find the 1894
> > citation that I'd previously found. I went back the exact page and it
> > was there,
> > but in a search of 1880-1900 it WASN'T there.
> > ...
> > The Oakland Tribune was announced as "new content" three days ago, so
> > I
> > re-searched for "jazz." I couldn't find the same "jazz" citations we
> > already knew
> > where there. If I changed the "jazz" search dates (from 1900-1914 to
> > 1909-1914), I'd get completely different results over the same time period.
> > ...
> > Oh, I got stories.
> > ...
> > --Barry Popik
> >
> >
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