Google data collected by Jonathan Lansey with an automatic program written by Etan Bukiet. Data from Yahoo was collected with the help of Virgil Griffith.

Sheet #

Description

0

You’re here, feast your eyes

1

Data used for figs.3, 4. Googlewhacks taken from googlewhack.com

2,3

Data used for fig. 5, 7 and 10 Combinations of words from the googlewhack vocabulary

4

Data used for fig. 6, Random selections from pairs on sheet 3 with a third common word added from a list (triplets)

5

Data used for fig 8. Yahoo and Google Comparison

6

Determining the magnitude of the spread with the advanced search options (from the discussion section)

7

Switching word pairs, like Goddamned Toolboxes, and comparing results (also from discussion)

8

Data used for fig. 1, from the computational model used to verify the linear approximation

9

Strength of Associativity data collected from these worksheets and used in Table 2

Format Key:

a

word a

b

word b

c

word c

A

Number of results from a search for word a

B

Number of results from a search for word b

C

Number of results from a search for word c

A+B

Number of results returned from words a and b together in the same search

A+B+C

Number of results returned from words a,b and c together in the same search

Values for I (index size)

I

8E+09

I(eff2)

9E+08

I(eff3)

31600000

Copyright Jonathan C. Lansey (2009)