about how dewey decimal is US centric and inherently biased
and so are all classification systems, to various extents. and then she talks about search engines
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in reply to @NireBryce's post:
To be fair to DDC nobody really uses it outside of the US it’s designed to be a system for American libraries specifically. The ratios is ranges distributed such that so much of 200 is towards Christianity is because in the US that’s the ratio of books about Christianity compared to other religions being published.