From Forbes
Sigmund Freud Is A Tech Writer!
This and other bizarre information has turned up in Google Books searches.
By Quentin Hardy
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Google Books has the contents of 10 million volumes--and some amazing howlers.
Speaking at a seminar [sponsored by UC Berkeley's School of Information] Friday on Google's book search service, Geoffrey Nunberg, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Information, presented Google Books searches that showed:
--Charles Dickens is listed 182 times as an author on books that came out before his birth year of 1812.
--William Shakespeare's Hamlet is listed under "Antiques and Collectables." A book on Australian feminism is listed as "Foreign Languages." A biography of Mae West is part of "Religion."
--A book on the Mosaic Web browser has Sigmund Freud as the author. Henry James wrote Madame Bovary, a book written by Gustave Flaubert.
--The Internet is mentioned in 527 books written before 1950.