The [G] link does not appear to be putting the search string in quotation marks. i.e., it looks for あるように, not "あるよ うに", so it drastically overestimates the number of hits. (AFAICT, it searches for any page that has ある、よう and に, but not necessarily as "あるように". With three such common words, it's basically returning every Japanese page on the web.)
If there's no technical difficulty preventing it, perhaps the [G] links should be changed to use quotation marks in their search strings?
Rene On 18-Feb-08, at 9:21 PM, Jim Rose wrote:
Hmm. Well, what I did was simply type あるように into WWWJDIC's word search, and when it didn't find it, I clicked on the "G", and it said there were 152,000,000 pages with said combo.On Feb 18, 2008, at 8:16 AM, René Malenfant wrote:Tried again and again and kept getting 150,000 or thereabouts. Are you sure your 'tricks' aren't drastically underestimating the true count? On 18-Feb-08, at 9:09 PM, Paul Blay wrote:> > I "only" get a million hits for the former, but half a million for> > the latter. > >> > To choose something completely random for the purpose of comparison,> > "蛙のように" gets 150,000 hits. > > I don't know what you did to get that, but only 12,200 hits here. > If you don't know the right Google tricks results can be completely > meaningless (instead of merely 'rather unreliable'). > >