[Buddha-l] Google as a research tool

[Curt Steinmetz]

On a related note, how can one get reliable information on what is 
really going on with google.cn? As far as I can tell what one sees 
outside of the PRC using google.cn is completely different from what one 
sees inside the PRC.

For those who don't know, google almost immediately caved after their 
much heralded "bold move" to supposedly stop censoring google.cn:
http://egregores.blogspot.com/2010/01/google-returns-to-being-evil.html

Curt Steinmetz

Donna Bair-Mundy wrote:
> Aloha,
>    My colleague, Dr. Peter Jacso, does extensive research on search 
> engines.  The figures that Google gives regarding Web pages found with 
> search terms are wildly inaccurate.  In one demo I saw him do he searched 
> two terms using the OR operator (additive) and then searched the same 
> terms using the AND operator (which selects only those sites with both 
> terms).  (You can force Google to use one or the other.)  The latter 
> search came up with a far larger number of hits--a number that did not 
> match the number of Web sites actually presented in the results.
>    As you can imagine, the folks that promote the various search engines 
> are somewhat less than fond of anyone who actually tests their claims for 
> their products.
>
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