Monday August 09, 2010
How Google Counted The World’s 129 Million Books
Mark Brown
Wired
In a blog post published this week, search mammoth Google explained the deep and thoroughly elaborate algorithm used by its literary offshoot, Google Books, to count just how many books exist in the world, right now.
Seeing as there’s no official standard to cataloging tomes (the final term Google settled on for defining what is and isn’t worth cataloging in Google Books, tomes are bound volumes that can be printed millions of times, or just once), plenty of systems were deemed unreliable.
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