more bistromathics at Google

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/12/2008 12:54 PM, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>Disjunctive queries highlight the overall inaccuracy of Google's
>search result numbers. Here's me complaining about it in Nov. '05:
>
>http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002658.html

Did you overlook the excluded middle, those hits that are neither
Connick nor not Connick?

(I notice also that you say Google counts seem to depend on location
-- clearly they are developed at restaurants.)

Joel

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