[Sigia-l] Tilde for synonym search in Google

[James Aylett]

Webindexing wrote:

> I'm puzzled how a hit count numbers can be calculated so that
> they give such misleading results? What you are saying suggests that
> hit numbers given by Google are totally unreliable?

It is likely that in early pages of search results, the hit count is an
estimation - otherwise Google would have to consider every single document
just to get the ten highest-matched for the first page, for instance (by
allowing the estimation, they can probably arrange to stop considering
documents in detail once they've got a certain number of results). That's
certainly how some other IR systems work ...

Cheers,
James

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