[Air-l] counting google hits

[jeremy hunsinger]

it doesn't need quotes unless you want to delimit internet research to 
just that specific phrasing :)   as I note at the end, you can contrive 
any result you wish, if you know what you are doing.
On Mar 4, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Lauren Squires wrote:

> Hey now, it seems you didn't utilize the phrase operator "__ __" in 
> those Googlefights, thereby biasing the results toward anything w/ 
> "internet" in the search terms...Let's be fair: qua phrase, "internet 
> research" loses miserably (sorry!) to sociology, psychology, "computer 
> science", and linguistics...also "internet research" loses by a hair 
> to "communucation studies." Just sayin'...
>
> LS
>
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 13:46:53 -0500
>  jeremy hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu> wrote:
>> perhaps to sort of add to the google hits discussion, I bring you  
>> googlefight, and I've prearranged a little contest between internet  
>> research and internet studies
>>
>> http://www.googlefight.com/index.php? 
>> lang=en_GB&word1=internet+research&word2=internet+studies
>>
>> and one between internet research and sociology:
>> http://www.googlefight.com/index.php? 
>> lang=en_GB&word1=internet+research&word2=sociology
>>
>> and one between internet research and communication research:
>> http://www.googlefight.com/index.php? 
>> lang=en_GB&word1=internet+research&word2=communication+research
>>
>> we beat them all hands down....  granted of course.... mostly you can 
>>  orchestrate just about any result....
>>
>> jeremy hunsinger
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