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[Apoc 2400]

Google searches:
portmanteau - 573,000 hits
portmanteau wikipedia - 88,400 hits
Conclusion: 15% of uses of the word portmanteau on the internet are on or
related to Wikipedia?
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[David Goodman]

Even  looking for the search phrase
"portmanteau wikipedia" there are 1320 hits, almost all mirrors. A
great many sites simply search Wikipedia if they find nothing in their
own database, even just in order to show up in the results list no
matter what one searches,.


David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Apoc 2400 <apoc2400@...> wrote:

> Google searches:
> portmanteau - 573,000 hits
> portmanteau wikipedia - 88,400 hits
> Conclusion: 15% of uses of the word portmanteau on the internet are on or
> related to Wikipedia?
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[stevertigo-2]

Apoc 2400 <apoc2400@...> wrote:
> Google searches:
> portmanteau - 573,000 hits
> portmanteau wikipedia - 88,400 hits
> Conclusion: 15% of uses of the word portmanteau on the internet are on or
> related to Wikipedia?

Well, in our defence, hardly anyone used IPA before and now its
everywhere -- thanks to us and people like Nohat, who IIRC got that
started here.

We are influential, and hopefully in a good way. I know that's a scary
concept for some people, but that's just the way it is. Free, open,
and global = means business.

-Stevertigo

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[Charles Matthews]

Apoc 2400 wrote:
> Google searches:
> portmanteau - 573,000 hits
> portmanteau wikipedia - 88,400 hits
> Conclusion: 15% of uses of the word portmanteau on the internet are on or
> related to Wikipedia?
>  
Google hits as metric seem to mean less than ever. I've just chased to
the far end of the Google searches: there were 75 pages total of hits
for the first. And 77 pages of hits for the second. So just over 100% of
uses on the Web for "portmanteau" are related to Wikipedia?

Google-watchers may know more, but the "raw" number of hits seems to
collapse under some sort of screening and/or condensation, often by a
factor of 1000.

Charles


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[Charles Matthews]

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/google-result-counts-are-a-meaningless-metric.html 
>
>
> It's all explained there.
>
Thanks, I was correct to assume others knew more about this than I.

Now to get AfD discussions to take this into account ...

Charles



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[Ray Saintonge]

stevertigo wrote:
> Well, in our defence, hardly anyone used IPA before and now its
> everywhere -- thanks to us and people like Nohat, who IIRC got that
> started here.
>
>  
Yes, I remember the debate between using IPA and SAMPA. Are we still
using the latter?

Ec

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[Gwern Branwen]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge@...> wrote:

> stevertigo wrote:
>> Well, in our defence, hardly anyone used IPA before and now its
>> everywhere -- thanks to us and people like Nohat, who IIRC got that
>> started here.
>>
>>
> Yes, I remember the debate between using IPA and SAMPA. Are we still
> using the latter?
>
> Ec

I still see SAMPA in Wiktionary entries, but I can't remember the last time I noticed it in a WP entry.

--
gwern

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