When I typed in "Coot diet" in Google, the first result told me Coots
are omnivore's.
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> Subject: [NGC4LIB] Another Google adventure
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> I know this is asking for trouble, but I can't resist sharing
> my latest Google adventure with you all. My husband and I
> were feeding stale bread to some coots on Echo Park Lake (in
> a neighborhood park near our house), when I was suddenly
> conscience-stricken at the realization that I didn't actually
> know if stale bread was good for coots. When I got home, I
> typed in to Google's famous search box "what do coots eat?"
> The reply that came back was a web site entitled "What do
> eagles eat?" In the list of eagle edibles was coots.
>
> In LCSH, the heading Coots--Food would give you perfect
> recall and precision for monographs wholly about what coots
> eat, if there were any. If this society placed a high value
> on universal employment (which it clearly doesn't), the
> heading Coots-Food would also bring up journal articles and
> papers that were wholly about what coots eat. We could even
> imagine a future in which correct RDF coding might allow a
> computer to translate the heading for a user who couldn't
> understand LCSH-ese into "food that coots eat."
>
> Just saying...
>
> Martha
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> "You have a dollar. I have a dollar. We swap. Now you have my
> dollar and I have your dollar. We are not better off. You
> have an idea. I have an idea.
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