Re: FW: [Corpora-List] problems with Google counts

From: Jean Veronis (Jean.Veronis@up.univ-mrs.fr)
Date: Wed Mar 16 2005 - 17:10:55 MET

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    Antoinette Renouf a écrit :

    >The latest problem for the users of our
    >WebCorp search tool is Google's abandonment of the wildcard ('*')
    >
    >
    Yes, this is a disaster for linguistic uses. I was about to wrote
    something on my blog about this. At the same time, it was the last
    advantage in using Google as opposed to Yahoo (whoses counts are much
    more credible). It seems that "Google linguistics" is dead.

    >As a longer-term solution, however, we shall be launching a new version
    >of WebCorp later this year, which works directly with our own tailored
    >search engine.
    >
    >
    Bravo !

    --j
      http://aixtal.blogspot.com

     

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