[Air-l] counting google hits
Thomas Koenig
T.Koenig at lboro.ac.uk
Fri Mar 4 12:05:22 PST 2005
At 18:46 04/03/2005, you 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
...
>and one between internet research and sociology:
>http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?
>lang=en_GB&word1=internet+research&word2=sociology
The proper query would of course have been
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=%22internet+research%22&word2=sociology
or,
http://tinyurl.com/4mufc
respectively, which soiology wins by a factor of 10. Still an
underestimation, because "internet research" might refer to both research
about the Internet or research conducted via the internet, but getting there.
>we beat them all hands down.... granted of course.... mostly you can
>orchestrate just about any result....
No, you cannot. You have virtually no influence on the results of
googlefight, which, of course, doesn't mean that you cannot fool it into
results that *appear* nonsensical.
Thomas
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thomas koenig, ph.d.
department of social sciences, loughborough university
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/mmethods/staff/thomas/index.html
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