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Library of Babel

Google goes in search of the neverending book

By Matthew Battles
December 26, 2004

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STEPHANE MALLARMÉ FAMOUSLY wrote that everything in the world exists to end up in a book. And today, it would seem, every book exists to end up on the World Wide Web. (Full article: 1008 words)

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