Hand of Google
While looking at a library book scanned by Google, I found this image, the hand behind the scanner revealed.
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This is quite upsetting. I'm glad to know Harvard's wasn't the only copy digitized.
See a few more Hands of Google here:
Bill Trippe had a "Google Books Stupid Page of the Day" think going for a while with several examples of these. See http://www.billtrippe.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=%22google%20books%20stupid%20page%20of%20the%20day%22 and also http://www.billtrippe.com/archives/2006/09/note_to_google.html.
Bob
"To err is human, to forgive divine". Google is not perfect so these kinda mistakes are quite possible.But after this, their QA department must be in trouble.
"To err is human, to forgive divine". Google is not perfect so these kinda mistakes are quite possible.But after this, their QA department must be in trouble.
its a funny picture ... it only says: google is nothing "magic" there are just humans like you and me and they make mistakes for sure like everyone.
also funny is the text of the captcha i have to write its says "in" and "handmade" ;)
Unless you're a piecemeal nonprofit--which Google certainly isn't--part of the project planning for any large-scale digitization effort is deciding what level of quality you're going to have and then putting the QA infrastructure in place to attain it. 100% accuracy isn't possible, but 99.95% and 99.995% are. Of course, the latter means a more expensive QA infrastructure.
Google's QA department is only in trouble if they're not meeting their goals. I'd love to see what those goals are, but I'm not holding my breath waiting to find out.
I'm guessing that it's a figure lower than 99.95%.
listen_to_dale asks: "What book was I reading?"
White's Selbourne. (Natural History of Selbourne)
Gloves are magenta in the various examples. I wonder if they have Deustche Telekom's right to scan with those...
An interesting question to ask yourself is how many hands actually touched that page (w. stylish cots or not) while it was in the library, vs. how many have seen it since it got digitized? ( And not just those viewing it to be critical.)
I found something like this too some time ago hehe :D
But I didn't save it, stupid me :(
damned cool pic. but the headline of the post is much better it remembers me to a great art picture of michael de angelo :)
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Dean W. Armstrong [01.18.08 06:26 PM]
Fingertip cots! I hate those.