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Linguistic capitalism or when words are worth their weight in gold

  • Émission
    Babylone
  • 28 February 2013
  • Frédéric Kaplan
    • Collège des Humanités, EPFL
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40 billion in sales a year (110 million a day!), that's how much Google earns from... selling words!

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