Snuzzle -- is Google reliable?

[Barnhart]

>rtroike at U.ARIZONA.EDU,Net writes:
>        This leaves me wondering how usefully reliable hit statistics on
>Google are sometimes.

My experience leads me to believe that, while googling a word or phrase
can be revealing, Google is among the the least reliable of the many
electronic resources available to linguists.  It did lead me to some
sources for very rare terms, such as _eighteen-wheeler_ for a kind of
enzyme.

Season's greetings to all,
David Barnhart
barnhart at highlands.com