At 18:46 04/03/2005, you wrote:
perhaps to sort of add to the google hits discussion, I bring you googlefight, and I've prearranged a little contest between internet research and internet studies
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and one between internet research and sociology: http://www.googlefight.com/index.php? lang=en_GB&word1=internet+research&word2=sociology
The proper query would of course have been http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=%22internet+research%2... or, http://tinyurl.com/4mufc respectively, which soiology wins by a factor of 10. Still an underestimation, because "internet research" might refer to both research about the Internet or research conducted via the internet, but getting there.
we beat them all hands down.... granted of course.... mostly you can orchestrate just about any result....
No, you cannot. You have virtually no influence on the results of googlefight, which, of course, doesn't mean that you cannot fool it into results that *appear* nonsensical. Thomas -- thomas koenig, ph.d. department of social sciences, loughborough university http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/mmethods/staff/thomas/index.html