Re: [edict-jmdict] Yahoo vs Google

["Jim Breen" <jimbreen@*********>]

On 19/02/2008, Paul Blay <blay.paul@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I've mentioned this before but yahoo.co.jp appears to be
>  (generally) more consistent than Google - although
>  it consistently returns higher numbers than Google.
>
>  If I search on "蛙のように" with Yahoo it returns 58,200 hit estimate
>  and asks "カエルのように" ではありませんか？ (the latter returning
>  64,300 hits).
>
>  If we moved on to the "Yahoo standard" for web based (P)s maybe
>  the target should be 4,000,000 as there appears to be a factor
>  of four difference most of the time.

That seems quite reasonable. Certainly Google counts are erratic, although
a low Google count is usually correct.

Jim

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Jim Breen
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Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
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