Tuesday, 16 March 2004

First person ::

Someone asked Google for a biography of Lao Tzu, and ended up here. He apparently had some expectation that my page would be a relatively authoritative source and left three juvenile comments. Well, I refer to a good book, but sure, there’s no other information there, and it’s between him and Google if my page is “in the way” of his trying to learn something on the Internet without having to buy a book. It occurred to me later, Google could be made smart enough to detect the use of the first, second and third person in language to classify pages into first-person narratives, dialogs, etc. Update (17 Mar): Uh, wait, not everything containing more opinion than information is identifiable by being written in the first person!