My latest collaboration with Mr. Rubin is again a piece that deals in snippets of text.
"We never show more than the headlines and a few snippets of text," he said.
Humans excel at extracting meaning and sentiment from even the tiniest snippets of text, a task that stumps machines.
Six are also illustrated with fold-outs, booklets and pull-out tabs that reveal additional pictures and snippets of text.
The story is told through snippets of text (which, combined, total forty thousand words), bookended with ostensibly straightforward decisions for the player.
The "ancillary copyright" bill now makes clear that search engines can publish "individual words or small snippets of text such as headlines" without incurring any costs.
Throughout, there are snippets of text recited by Eva-Maria Kuhrau in breathy voice-overs, as well as by the dancers.
Some of these snippets of text are scrawled directly on the wall; others, drawn on paper and adorned with floral borders, bring to mind embroidered samplers.
Google's loss means that, for now, its search results will show only snippets of text from books that are under copyright but out of print.
