And 10 years ago someone would have told you that it would be a useless endeavor to seek a way of detecting geographical censorship without direct, in depth knowledge of the authors & geo-political/cultural climates.

Don't hate this for what it can't do today. Embrace it for what it can do now that we couldn't imagine possible yesterday.>> ^gorillaman:

>> ^HenningKO:
>> ^criticalthud:
i'm guessing that you can't query the core concepts of books (?)- so often the really important stuff.
as in, how do you get to the ideas, not just the words that convey them?

You choose the words very carefully and do multiple searches!

This is both exactly correct and totally useless. You would have to choose the words so carefully and do so many searches that at that point you might as well be reading all five million books.

>> ^HenningKO:

>> ^criticalthud:
i'm guessing that you can't query the core concepts of books (?)- so often the really important stuff.
as in, how do you get to the ideas, not just the words that convey them?

You choose the words very carefully and do multiple searches!


This is both exactly correct and totally useless. You would have to choose the words so carefully and do so many searches that at that point you might as well be reading all five million books.