[Air-l] counting google hits

elijah wright elw at stderr.org
Wed Mar 2 16:31:08 PST 2005


> 1. Go to www.google.com
> 2. type in Carribean
> 3. Look at the light blue web bar on top of the first list of hits. It
> will show you the approximate number of hits:
> Example: "Results 1 - 10 of about 38,100,000 for caribbean"

folks realize that using the "number of hits returned on google" is a 
hilarious bad way to prove a point -- right?

this is like reading a student paper that says: "Merriam Webster's 
dictionary says that X is defined as Y.  Therefore, Z.", accompanied by no 
further argumentation.  Possibly true, but pretty hole-y logic.

--elijah



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