Quote:Ebrown wrote: Thank you for renewing my faith in google.
The examples I gave were not intended to illustrate that your comparison was a good one, Ebrown. It was not, even with the changes I made, eg. "exact phrase search".
But an
exact phrase search, combined with such tools as, of course,
English only pages and the use of certain regions does give a good raw indicator of the usage of certain collocations. It works much better, ie. more accurately, on opinion free collocations than it does on loaded opinion strings.
It is used by linguists and language researchers as, a good raw indicator.
There were a number of other questions that I posed that you have, mmmmmm, put aside for the moment. You seem like too honest a fella to simply ignore them completely.
