I think pretty much everyone does that. You can also use the syntax define:word in the google web entry and it will give you a series of definitions. Get Google Hacks 2nd Edition (O'Reilly); it has an enormous amount of information on Google and the various ways to access/modify it. - Alan On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Nancy Baym wrote:
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.
Nancy
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