In 2003, the special issue of “Computational linguistics” (September, 29, 3) dedicated to the Web as corpus and edited by Adam Kilgarriff and Gregory Grefenstette was a landmark event for a promising field of study. Today, this book makes for a fine update, even if it is more limited in scope than its predecessor and less recent in its content than its date of publication would lead to believe. The articles included are in fact partially “based on papers presented at the symposium Corpus linguistics—Perspectives for the Future held (…) in Heidelberg in October 2004” (p. 4). However, the editors state that some of the articles were commissioned later, and many of the texts have in fact been brought up to date to take recent developments into account.