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At the Frankfurt Book Fair this week, Google revealed a small batch of data concerning use patterns on Google Book Search: a list of the ten most searched titles from September 17 to 23. Google already does this sort of snapshotting for general web search with its “zeigeist<\/a>” feature, a weekly, monthly or annual list of the most popular, or gaining, search queries for a given period — presented as a screengrab of the collective consciousness, or a slice of what John Battelle calls “the database of intentions<\/a>.” The top ten book list is a very odd assortment, a mix of long tail eclecticism and current events:
\nDiversity and Evolutionary Biology of Tropical Flowers<\/a> By Peter K. Endress
\nMerriam Webster’s Dictionary of Synonyms <\/a>
\nMeasuring and Controlling Interest Rate and Credit Risk<\/a> By Frank J. Fabozzi, Steven V. Mann, Moorad Choudhry
\nUltimate Healing: The Power of Compassion<\/a> By Lama Zopa Rinpoche; Edited by Ailsa Cameron
\nThe Holy Qur’an<\/a> Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
\nPeterson’s Study Abroad 2006<\/a>
\nHegemony Or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance <\/a> By Noam Chomsky
\nMerriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage <\/a>
\nPerrine ‘s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense <\/a>By Thomas R Arp, Greg Johnson
\nBuild Your Own All-Terrain Robot<\/a> By Brad Graham, Kathy McGowan
\n(reported in Reuters<\/a> and InfoWorld<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the Frankfurt Book Fair this week, Google revealed a small batch of data concerning use patterns on Google Book Search: a list of the ten most searched titles from September 17 to 23. Google already does this sort of snapshotting for general web search with its “zeigeist” feature, a weekly, monthly or annual list […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,755,759,1676,2059],"tags":[2495],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-google","category-google_book_search","category-search","category-zeitgeist","tag-google-google_book_search-search-books-zeitgeist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}