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

From: Tom Emerson (tree@basistech.com)
Date: Wed Mar 16 2005 - 17:20:20 MET

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    Jean Veronis writes:
    > 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.

    I think it is more true that "Google linguistics" outside of the
    Google campus is dead. They have hired a number of NLP researchers
    over the last year or two.

        -tree 

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