Shawn Medero

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Tag Archives: web as a corpus

Google Counts Considered Harmful

Language Log has what can be considered the definitive look into whether or not Google query results counts are meaningless for social language research. Language Log has also posted several other entries on this topic worth reading: Googlinguistics: the good, the bad, and the ugly Google recall (They stole his mind,now he wants it back.) More arithmetic problems at Google […]