[Esip-preserve] Oh Goody - Google's got a numeric data format!

[Tom Moritz]

A few weeks ago I did what I thought was an interesting experiment --
I just generated some arbitrary numbers (out to fourth / fifth decimal point
and searched them on Google...

Pondering those results is pretty interesting...

Tom


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On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Bruce Barkstrom <brbarkstrom at gmail.com>wrote:

> This should be lots of fun:
> http://www.slate.com/id/2285354/
>
> I doubt the millennium of peace, freedom
> for all, and justice will arrive with Google's
> attempt to provide a universal data format
> for numerical data.  Note that the author
> regards XML and RDF as unpleasant.
>
> Anyway, comments would be interesting.
>
> Bruce B.
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