Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Is this believable?
From: Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:36:35 +0100 (MET)

I did "Brian Reid speaks" and the first two were "Brian Reid speaks
eloquently" ... not our Brian, but hey ...

Daniel


On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Brian Reid wrote:

> Google News has a database of 4000 newspapers, and you can ask it to search all of them at once. Typing the search query
> 	photographer cheney maginnis
> into Google News will give you the 2600 article but nothing else. My opinion is that if this story were true, that at least one other newspaper would have mentioned it.
>
> Pick something that really happened, like (say) "nuns murdered" or "bank fraud" and you will see thousands of articles. Pick something really obscure, like "tompkins county commissioner", and you'll see lots of newspapers that you never knew existed.
>
> Brian Reid
> (who happens to be Director of Operations at Google, Inc)
>
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