More Fingers Spotted In Google Book Search

By Barry Schwartz

Published: December 6, 2007 at 8:48 am

Google Books Adds Hand Scans from TechCrunch reports finding more scans of fingers in Google Book Search. This time the fingers were spotted in a copy of the 1855 edition of “The Gentleman’s Magazine” on this page.

This is not the first time we have seen fingers in Google Book Search. Philipp Lenssen reported a similar situation in June 2006.

It doesn’t just happen in Google Book Search. A giant bug was also found in Google Maps in the past. The bug turned out to be a regular sized one caught when map images were scanned.

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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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