Google Trends and the Ghost of T.S. Eliot


	Google Trends and the Ghost of T.S. Eliot

cclogston

5-14-2008 7:17 AM

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web searching, google, peotry, ts eliot

cclogston says:

I'm just happy that people are putting a poem's first line into a Google search box. Yay!

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