Webidence (2000)

Mon Sep 15 05:14:22 UTC 2003

On Honyaku, it's used quite a bit to just mean evidence from the Web...

The oldest hit I find is 13 April 1998, used by Brian Chandler. Although he
might not have been the first person to use it, I believe he coined it, at
least independently:

http://cgi.monjunet.ne.jp/PT/honyaku/bin/hksrch.dll?Q=webidence&D=57394&I=1

Benjamin Barrett
Baking the World a Better Place
www.hiroki.us

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>    "Webidence" is not on Wordspy.com.  There isn't a
> trademark for it, and I didn't see it on Nexis.
> Unfortunately, it wasn't coined here today.
>    There are 77 Google hits, and 215 Google Groups hits.
>
> (GOOGLE GROUPS)(The subject line is in Russian--ed.)
> From: Alexander Chelnokov
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> Date: 2000-09-05 07:11:01 PST