Google Squared cannot lie

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Thu Jun 4 09:17:01 CDT 2009


Dead last, but who knows what these algorithms are thinking anyway???  
First is "Catch-22" [pretty much my life for the last 40 years, since  
I first read the thing]. "Atlas Shrugged" & "The Fountainhead" pop up  
on the list before GR. This time around "Gravity's Rainbow" was dead  
last, after "At Swim Two Birds" which I must get into sometime. À la  
recherche du temps perdu isn't even on the list. (These machines seem  
to have a mind of their own.)

On Jun 4, 2009, at 7:04 AM, Robert Mahnke wrote:

> Gravity's Rainbow was ranked first when I did it -- not for you?
>
> On 6/4/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> On Jun 4, 2009, at 5:52 AM, David Morris wrote:
>>
>>> If you hit the "next 10 items" button, they include _The  
>>> Fountainhead_ AND "Atlas Shrugged"!  But if you excise the  
>>> juvenile books, the list is pretty good.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>> http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=best+novel
>>
>> Hit that button enough times and Gravity's Rainbow eventually pops  
>> up.




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