RE: [Air-l] counting google hits

Innovative use of google hits:

Some one I know uses google when checking spelling and foreign language phrasing -- if a spelling turns up 150 google hits one way, and 350,000 the other way, he figures the second spelling was correct. Same when he's not sure exactly how a phrase goes in another language. More hits = probably grammatical.

:-) I did this (for the spelling of Scarborough, as if it matters) about two minutes before this message came through! I also like the 'did you really mean *insert correct spelling here*?' feature you get with google.