From Library Journal
Google, “The Last Library,” and Millions of Metadata Mistakes
Search giant says it's improving, and that a massive project inevitably means a percentage of errors
By Norman Oder
One of the most buzzed-about criticisms of the Google Book Search project, and thus the pending settlement, emerged at a conference last Friday, when Geoff Nunberg, a linguistics expert and adjunct full professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information., called Google’s project likely “the Last Library.” He proceeded to slam the quality of Google’s metadata, pointing to numerous egregious misclassifications and dates and calling the situation “a train wreck: a mish-mash wrapped in a muddle wrapped in a mess.”...