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?
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(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.)
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