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alexholehouse on Aug 3, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: See what Google knows about you

Indeed - no, I'm the sole user of the computer, it just seems odd that so many disappeared, I'd almost not believe it if I hadn't taken a screenshot!

Considering Google's expertise with data you'd think they'd have enough NLP know-how to avoid errors like the one you describe - interesting though.

danielharan on Aug 3, 2011 [–]

Probably a lack of motivation rather than ability. Also, their current algo is probably "good enough" for most cases.

alexholehouse on Aug 3, 2011 | [–]

Yeah - I guess when "good enough" gets you around $25 billion in revenue, it's probably good enough for now...

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