Re: [Corpora-List] Query on the use of Google for corpus research

From: Jean Veronis (Jean.Veronis@up.univ-mrs.fr)
Date: Fri May 27 2005 - 09:04:37 MET DST

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    Peter K Tan a écrit :

    >Does anyone have any
    > experience/insight on this?
    >
    >

    Well... yes! I made a series of in-depth analyses of Google counts. They
    are totally bogus, and unusable for any kind of serious research.

    There is a summary here :

    http://aixtal.blogspot.com/2005/02/web-googles-missing-pages-mystery.html

    I applied the same criteria to Yahoo, and it seems that their results
    are (if not sincere) at least credible and usable for research (I mean
    that if they are inflated for marketting reasons, which is always
    possible, it seems to be in a proportional way). 

    -- 
Jean Véronis
  http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/veronis
  http://aixtal.blogspot.com

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