Re: Motion 46: finalise interval literals: ULP

[Ian McIntosh <ianm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A little off topic, but...

Don't trust hit counts.  I've noticed in my Google searches that sometimes over 99% of the responses point at web sites which appear to respond positively to any query, and whose purpose is to download malware to my computer.  I suspect that to support searching for dynamic-html web sites, Google has to ask on the fly "Do you have anything in your database matching this query?" and those sites just say yes.

- Ian McIntosh          IBM Canada Lab         Compiler Back End Support and Development


Richard Fateman ---07/17/2013 10:02:06 AM---Something is fishy with that  count statistic in google it indeed says  ... position...  has 2,580,0

From:	Richard Fateman <fateman@xxxxxxxxx>
To:	Ian McIntosh/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
Date:	07/17/2013 10:02 AM
Subject:	Re: Motion 46: finalise interval literals: ULP

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Something is fishy with that  count statistic in google

it indeed says  ... position...  has 2,580,000
   but you can look at all of them in just 3 pages.

and ...place has 375,000
  but many many pages of them.

I think ULP is ... PLACE.

I searched for "units in the last place"   vs  "units in the last 
position"  with quotes and plural.

RJF


On 7/17/2013 5:06 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2013-07-17 14:00:12 +0200, Hossam A. H. Fahmy wrote:
>> On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 13:20 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>>
>>> "unit in the last place": 375 000 results
>>> "unit in the last position": 2 580 000 results
>> Strange!
>> Google gives me "About 5,800,000 results" for "unit in the last place"
>> and "About 2,600,000 results" for "unit in the last position".
>>
>> Can you recheck your search.
> Results may be country-based, but such a difference is strange anyway.
>
> https://www.google.com/search?q=%22unit+in+the+last+place%22
> giving 375 000 results
>
> https://www.google.com/search?q=%22unit+in+the+last+position%22
> giving 2 580 000 results
>