Tuesday, August 9, 2005

Google Knows the Authors

Google’s mighty Q&A feature can tell you who wrote a novel – in some cases. Give it a try yourself. I’ve tested the following:

• Who wrote The Name of the Rose?
  Umberto Eco
  (Correct.)
• Who wrote Foucault’s Pendulum?
  -
  (No answer given.)
• Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
  Jane Austen
  (Correct.)
• Who wrote Lolita?
  Vladimir Nabokov
  (Correct.)
• Who wrote The Brothers Karamazov?
  Julius J. Epstein
  (Not really correct – Epstein adapted a movie script from a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.)
• Who wrote War and Peace?
  Leo Tolstoy
  (Correct.)

Google Knows the Authors by Philipp Lenssen | Comments (2)

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