Google Book Search: The New Literary Lie Detector November 28, 2006

“Mediocre Writers Borrow; Great Writers Steal” – T.S. Eliot The plagiarism police have found a new weapon: Google Book Search First there is the story of Winston Churchill borrowing a few lines from H.G. Wells, though not directly attributed t0 the Google Book Search technology one would assume there was a good chance the writer employed it during his research.War of the Worlds – World Wars – Talk about the boundaries of truth and fiction.I…

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