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September 3rd, 2009

We’re improving our metadata, Google responds

By David Rothman

image “The quality of our metadata now is a lot better than it was six months ago, and it’ll be better still six months from now. We will never stop improving it.” – Jon Orwant of the Google metadata team—responding to Geoffrey Nunberg’s accusations of sloppy metadata (via Library Journal article).

Related: Nunberg’s Chronicle of Higher Education article and Paul Biba’s TeleRead summary.

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One Response to “We’re improving our metadata, Google responds”

  1. Bill Says:
    September 3rd, 2009 at 8:18 pm

    Never? What about the eventual heat death of the universe?

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