At 11:06 PM 9/3/2007, Conal Tuohy wrote:
>In the "book space", I would expect to see e.g. Amazon and
>Google deploy these techniques first, for disambiguating authors,
>identifying concepts, etc, simply because they have access to the full
>text of books, and we don't.
But as I thought I demonstrated a short while ago (late May), Amazon
at least has apparently no interest in disambiguating authors, and
library catalogers do - and they have done so (even without access to
the full text - meaning that the job can be done right now if one
cares enough to bother). Amazon isn't in the same business as
libraries. This difference in priorities is quite likely to result in
different handling for situations. If you spend more at the store do
you really think the shopkeeper is going to worry about whether you
got the most efficient or most complete view of things? Ditto
regarding the eyeballs on Google's advertisements.
Mike
mike at jazzdiscography.com
www.jazzdiscography.com
Received on Mon Sep 03 2007 - 23:39:21 EDT