25 Apr
2016
25 Apr
'16
12:16 p.m.
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Peter Coghlan wrote:
Generally, in my experience, when someone states a fact then says "What does
that prove?" they are dismissing the importance of said fact.
There are
210,000 results for "LISP sucks" on Google and I can paste
in the first couple of links, too. What does that prove ?
I think it demonstrates
that quoting the initial number of search
results that Google returns is pretty unusable for any purpose. I only get 209,000 results. However, if I take Google
at their word
and page through them, when I get to page 29 (and only then), they
finally admit that the number of results is more like 282.
I think I could reproduce your method with any topic.
1. Do any search. Especially one with lots of results.
2. Scroll to the last page of results
3. Quote some irrelevant results.
The point was that having someone spout a couple of links off the net isn't
proof of squat when it comes to something so subjective. Ie.. dealing with
words like "rock" or "suck" ? Are you going to tell me that there is
some
scientifically valid way of determining that ??
-Swift