Google for Internet Database of all life ...

[Richard Pyle]

This gets at the heart of what I meant by "taxonomic intelligence".  Think
thesaurus, rather than text-string approximation.

Rich

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> Behalf Of Frederick W. Schueler
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> Subject: Re: Google for Internet Database of all life ...
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>
> Karl Magnacca wrote:
> >
> > On 21 Mar 2006 at 5:59, Faunaplan at AOL.COM wrote:
> > > Did you notice that Google already has something like a
> "names server"?
>
> > Actually, that's just their error correcting suggestion, which
> > frequently comes up on any search when one of the words is rarely used
> > compared to a slightly different one.
>
> * and you can sometimes get fairly humorous results, because it treats
> the genus and species as two separate words (if you don't have your
> search in quotes), so you can be urged to consider totally novel
> combinations -- "No, I did not mean Lampsilis cardiac!" Fortunately
> google search results don't count as publications.
>
> fred.
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