Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served

Re:Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served by taeric on Monday October 03, 2022 @01:21PM (#33070670)

But that number has no way of inspecting it to know what it actually means. Is it including prefix searches? Suffix? Whole word only? Possible misspellings? Acronyms? Translations?

I get that it can be somewhat directional, but I question that anyone is getting meaningful data out of it. :(

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Re:Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served by amelius on Monday October 03, 2022 @06:40PM (#33074651)

Also, some pages are mirrored all over the internet.

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Re:Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served by hunter2_ on Monday October 03, 2022 @07:27PM (#33075005)

You've just opened a can of worms. It raises a very interesting question: when asking something like

> if I want to know the most commonly used spelling between two options

do those mirrors count as "use" of the word? Or does "use" refer only to the original writer?

If a neologism is written once and read by millions, it carries more weight than one read by only a few people. Perhaps the same goes for spelling variants: the more people see it, the more people agree it's the typical spelling. Lots of mirroring could be a decent proxy for lots of readership.

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Re:Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served by mewpmewp2 on Monday October 03, 2022 @02:31PM (#33071695)

You can in some cases compare different keywords to each other.

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