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BetterRed · 08-03-2014, 06:35 PM

@Vortex If you chose the text on which to search then it's highly likely that its not truly random - you would have used your intuitive good sense. I noticed your example used a complete sentence. I tried a fragment of 9 words from Bleak House and Google failed, when I expanded it to a complete sentence it succeeded.

I suspect a PI with some heuristics to extract the first sentence would probably have a pretty good chance of finding books at Google.

The Amazon and Bookfinder links did not present me with a place to enter a sentence.

BR

08-03-2014, 06:35 PM	#617
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 20,572 Karma: 26954694 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@Vortex If you chose the text on which to search then it's highly likely that its not truly random - you would have used your intuitive good sense. I noticed your example used a complete sentence. I tried a fragment of 9 words from Bleak House and Google failed, when I expanded it to a complete sentence it succeeded. I suspect a PI with some heuristics to extract the first sentence would probably have a pretty good chance of finding books at Google. The Amazon and Bookfinder links did not present me with a place to enter a sentence. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 08-03-2014 at 06:38 PM.