On Jul 23, 11:29*am, blake murphy > wrote:
>
> >On Jul 22, 11:19*am, blake murphy > wrote:
>
> >> if you google 'sushi mayonnaise' (without quotation marks), you get
> >> 356,000 hits, so clearly it's not an unknown concept.
>
> >If you google 'stupid uses of google' (without quotation marks), you
> >get 89,900.000 hits, so clearly yours is not the only one.
>
> >If you google "sushi mayonnaise" with quotation marks you get 644
> >hits. *By your thinking does that mean they go together 644/356000
> >(less than 0.2 percent) of the time? *-aem
>
> um, you said
>
> ...and i was just saying the two terms obviously can be related.
> better a 'stupid use of google' than no use at all.
>
You need to think a little more about how google works. When you put
in two words unlinked by quotes google returns all the documents and
web pages on which it found the two words. They don't have to be
together or related in any sense other than that each one occurs
somewhere in the document/website. Sushi and mayonnaise gets 356,000
hits, but terrorism and mayonnaise gets over 500,000 hits. Do you
think that means they are somehow more related? IOW your use of
google to discover whether terms are related should not be expected to
work, and doesn't. -aem