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Playing around

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May 23 2008, 5:54 am

Keywords: blog, google, modified, reader, results

Armiris

I was playing around with a modified version of my Blog Reader program, and look at what I found.

How many results does the search 'WoW' get?
about 484,000,000
How many results does the search 'New York City' get?
about 206,000,000
How many results does the search 'NYC' get?
about 134,000,000
How many results does the search 'New York' get?
about 1,170,000,000

WoW is more popular than New York City or NYC, but none of them are as popular as New York.

May 23 2008, 8:33 am
Mechana2412	That makes no sense whatsoever. Unless New York is the name of some obscure politicial group/military group/hippie clan/band/guitar hero youtube sensation/who knows what.

May 23 2008, 8:39 am
Armiris	How many results does the search 'YouTube' get? about 699,000,000 How many results does the search 'Digg' get? about 522,000,000 How many results does the search 'BitTorrent' get? about 48,600,000 How many results does the search 'Google' get? about 2,480,000,000