Scrive Ulla Bunz <bunz@scils.rutgers.edu>:
Actually, you do have influence on google fight results.
If so, please influence its results in a way that Kerry beats Bush.
I noticed, for example, that Burger King wins by a huge margin compared to McDonalds, except, they spelled it MacDonalds, and so unless you know, you'll be getting the wrong impression.
[...] You can influence googlefight's *queries*, no doubt, but not its results, as you yourself say:
you can influence exactly what google searches for. --------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^
Just like the results SPSS delivers depends, of course, on the data file, which you can manipulate as you like it. Does that make SPSS an unreliable tool? Thomas -- thomas koenig, ph.d. department of social sciences, loughborough university, u.k. http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/mmethods/staff/thomas/index.html