[Corpora-List] Google "region"-based searches

John F Sowa sowa at bestweb.net
Wed Nov 28 13:26:48 UTC 2012


On 11/28/2012 4:49 AM, Tristan Miller wrote:
>    "enterprise integration pattern" java sql
>
> gets 25,800,000 results, but
>
>    "enterprise integration pattern" "java" "sql"
>
> returns a more sensible 8520 results.

Thanks.  That is what I was looking for.

On 11/28/2012 5:15 AM, Adam Kilgarriff wrote:
> Googleology is bad science.  Being at the mercy of every slight change
> in syntax or interpretation of Google's unpublished, undocumented
> search syntax is horrible.

I agree.  I was not looking for publishable statistics.

I was trying to get a rough estimate of the kinds of technology that
people use with various kinds of design patterns.  For that purpose,
Tristan's method is what I wanted.

John

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