Comments on: Vibrant Logic http://www.xenosystems.net/vibrant-logic/ Involvements with reality Thu, 05 Feb 2015 06:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Neener http://www.xenosystems.net/vibrant-logic/#comment-28282 Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:18:00 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1574#comment-28282 @nick

There are a ton of little things that matter in the search. The official google power searching course here: http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/

explains a few of them. As does this PDF: http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/course/ps/assets/PowerSearchingQuickReference.pdf

For instance, word order matters. Another — and probably the explanation of the difference between searches here — is that Google also searches for synonyms, if you don’t have quotes around search terms. Both Nigerians and China probably don’t have that many synonyms; while prison has a bunch. If you put quotes around each individual word for the second search (with the prison word) I get 472,000 results. While I get 3,020,000 results for the first search with quotes. (Note that search results also differ by location, so you may get slightly different results, but they should show that the prison quote search is slightly less than the other search).

]]> By: Michael http://www.xenosystems.net/vibrant-logic/#comment-28183 Fri, 15 Nov 2013 01:38:23 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1574#comment-28183 steve sailors wondered how this works often

]]> By: Crates http://www.xenosystems.net/vibrant-logic/#comment-28057 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 09:40:58 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1574#comment-28057 “somalis prison uk” = 5,370,000 results
“somalis uk” = 2,590,000 results

When you look into the google, it looks back into you also.

]]> By: admin http://www.xenosystems.net/vibrant-logic/#comment-28051 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 08:38:44 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1574#comment-28051 Seems more like an army of hyperbolic racists in this case. (What else to make of the Google report that there are more stories about Nigerian crime in China than stories about Nigerians in China?)

]]> By: admin http://www.xenosystems.net/vibrant-logic/#comment-28050 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 08:36:24 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1574#comment-28050 If I’m taking this to suggest that without the ‘+’ the terms are additive (“a Boolean ‘or’ not ”and’ algorithm” to quote Billy Chav above), it seems totally incredible. To give just one concrete example, throwing in “drugs crime” (with no ‘+’s) reduces the hit count by c.80%. Check out the links provided by “nigerians china prison” — it’s clearly operating as a set-theoretic intersection. The alternative blatantly contradicts the ‘common sense’ of general Googling experience.

]]> By: Orthodox http://www.xenosystems.net/vibrant-logic/#comment-28047 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 08:24:41 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1574#comment-28047 + means the term must be in the search results. The exact word order requires quotes around it. So + prisons means you want results for prisons, that also have nigerians and/or china in them.

]]> By: spandrell http://www.xenosystems.net/vibrant-logic/#comment-28046 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 08:23:55 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1574#comment-28046 Google search is actually moderated manually by an army of hired hands. I did it once, good money but horribly dull.

You can guess what an army of leftists can do with your search results.

]]> By: admin http://www.xenosystems.net/vibrant-logic/#comment-28045 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:49:06 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1574#comment-28045 Am I really the only person here who’s morally sick enough to find this Google result amusing?

[Even cranking up the search to “nigerians china prison drugs crime” yields 3,300,000 hits. Vibrancy shatters set theory.]

]]> By: admin http://www.xenosystems.net/vibrant-logic/#comment-28042 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:22:50 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1574#comment-28042 If I’m understanding Google grammar, the ‘+’ demands exact word order, so it becomes a request for specific phrases, rather than for a required topic.

]]> By: Orthodox http://www.xenosystems.net/vibrant-logic/#comment-28039 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:05:19 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1574#comment-28039 You need to do: china nigerians +prison. It gets 39 hits.

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