[Web4lib] What to call the links

[Lars Aronsson]

Bernhard Eversberg wrote:

> Will anyone who doesn't know how to spell the name be able
> to understand the theory of relativity?

This was a common attitude towards dyslexia in the 1980s, but no 
more.  Einstein is a German name, you're German, and I speak 
German well enough not to do *this* mistake, but we only have to 
move to Puschkin (German), Pusjkin (Swedish), Pushkin (English), 
Pouchkine (French), Puskin (Hungarian) to get into deep water. LoC 
catches Puschkin with a "more info" record, but misses the less 
common Scandinavian spelling Pusjkin.

> But seriously, a search engine like Google's is inundated with 
> requests for popular stuff, and with _much_ larger numbers of 
> requests, so their basis for a statistical analysis of typing 
> errors is lots better. You _need_ enormous numbers of both 
> documents and queries to do a good job at this.

What you're implying here is that local library catalogs are 
doomed and, in order to achieve useful results, catalog searches 
have to be aggregated into giants like OCLC, where an economy of 
scale can be reached for proper search query analysis.

Worldcat.org finds several book titles misspelled Einstien.
Still, not even Worldcat suggests that I might want to search for 
Einstein.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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