[lit-ideas] Re: Academic resumes and spam filters

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>A reporter at the Wall Street Journal is working on a story about spam
>filters and resumes. For academics, this is a bit of a problem: If you were
>one of those who graduated with magna c u m laude in your degree, your
>resume (and emails, if you use your title in your degrees) will be blocked
>by spam filters.

Many moons ago, I pointed out on Phil-Lit that
the returns from search engines could be used
to quantify "linguistic drift." Type in a word and
you could count the uses of each of a word's
many meanings. What was most interesting
was that the commercial potential of pornography
on the internet meant that people were burying
invisible words (text colour the same as the
background colour) that would make their pages
show up when they weren't supposed to. A
9 year old searching for information on "beavers"
is not going to find anything about the aquatic
mammaland no one is going to learn anything
about Nabokov searching for "Lolita." What's
most interesting how these intended meanings
were probably not "relevant" to the searcher...

David Savory
Vancouver
dsavory@xxxxxxxxx
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