Comments on: Show Off Your Mac Setup In The MacBattle Arena http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/03/26/show-off-your-mac-setup-in-the-macbattle-arena/ 365 Days Of My Experience With Apple As A Switcher Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:09:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Nomad/Xero http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/03/26/show-off-your-mac-setup-in-the-macbattle-arena/#comment-602 Nomad/Xero Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:58:37 +0000 http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/03/26/show-off-your-mac-setup-in-the-macbattle-arena/#comment-602 20,930,000,000 I got varying results with the same keywords depending on what time i did the search... that seems a little odd to me. The first time i searched i only got 10 billion results, but the blog was down, two hours later i got 20 billion with same search. you might want to try yours again. The really ironic thing is that the first site on the results page for this search is: www.apple.com/getamac/ (it really is) 20,930,000,000

I got varying results with the same keywords depending on what time i did the search… that seems a little odd to me. The first time i searched i only got 10 billion results, but the blog was down, two hours later i got 20 billion with same search. you might want to try yours again.

The really ironic thing is that the first site on the results page for this search is: www.apple.com/getamac/ (it really is)

]]> By: Nomad/Xero http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/03/26/show-off-your-mac-setup-in-the-macbattle-arena/#comment-603 Nomad/Xero Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:02:33 +0000 http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/03/26/show-off-your-mac-setup-in-the-macbattle-arena/#comment-603 also note that while google may know of 2E10 results, the will only tell you where the first 1000 are... also note that while google may know of 2E10 results, the will only tell you where the first 1000 are…

]]> By: Nick Young http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/03/26/show-off-your-mac-setup-in-the-macbattle-arena/#comment-604 Nick Young Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:01:51 +0000 http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/03/26/show-off-your-mac-setup-in-the-macbattle-arena/#comment-604 Wow, your right. The search that gave me 8.5 billion before now gives me 17 billion. It was just the letter a. Thats kinda odd. I found it strange that the letter a gives more results than the letter e. You would think that the letter e would give more results since the letter e's frequency in the English language is 12.7% compared to a's 8.2%... according to <a href="http://www.simonsingh.net/The_Black_Chamber/frequencyanalysis.html" rel="nofollow">this site</a>. Wow, your right. The search that gave me 8.5 billion before now gives me 17 billion. It was just the letter a. Thats kinda odd. I found it strange that the letter a gives more results than the letter e. You would think that the letter e would give more results since the letter e’s frequency in the English language is 12.7% compared to a’s 8.2%… according to this site.

]]> By: Nomad/Xero http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/03/26/show-off-your-mac-setup-in-the-macbattle-arena/#comment-605 Nomad/Xero Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:31:23 +0000 http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/03/26/show-off-your-mac-setup-in-the-macbattle-arena/#comment-605 *A* I dont know what the * * does exactly, but I thought i would try it because in some other software it returns all results that contain whatever is between them, oddly enough *E* still produces less results that *A* so it can't be treating the * * the way i thought it might. *A*

I dont know what the * * does exactly, but I thought i would try it because in some other software it returns all results that contain whatever is between them, oddly enough *E* still produces less results that *A* so it can’t be treating the * * the way i thought it might.

]]> By: Nick Young http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/03/26/show-off-your-mac-setup-in-the-macbattle-arena/#comment-606 Nick Young Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:35:33 +0000 http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/03/26/show-off-your-mac-setup-in-the-macbattle-arena/#comment-606 LOL, thats the same search I did right before posting that comment. Your right. You were correct in how you understood the * character. The * is known as the wild card character. It takes the place of any number of characters. So if you do a search for *ot you should get {hot, bot, boot, root, ...}. By placing the * before and after the word it means that any number of characters (even 0) can be before and after the letter. Its especially nice when searching for a word that could end with s, ed, ing. Because it will include all of those words in the results. LOL, thats the same search I did right before posting that comment. Your right. You were correct in how you understood the * character. The * is known as the wild card character. It takes the place of any number of characters. So if you do a search for *ot you should get {hot, bot, boot, root, …}. By placing the * before and after the word it means that any number of characters (even 0) can be before and after the letter. Its especially nice when searching for a word that could end with s, ed, ing. Because it will include all of those words in the results.

]]> By: Nomad/Xero http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/03/26/show-off-your-mac-setup-in-the-macbattle-arena/#comment-607 Nomad/Xero Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:38:04 +0000 http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/03/26/show-off-your-mac-setup-in-the-macbattle-arena/#comment-607 but if google was treating it that way it should return more results for *E* than *A* right? but if google was treating it that way it should return more results for *E* than *A* right?

]]> By: Nick Young http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/03/26/show-off-your-mac-setup-in-the-macbattle-arena/#comment-615 Nick Young Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:32:58 +0000 http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/03/26/show-off-your-mac-setup-in-the-macbattle-arena/#comment-615 You would think, but here's my hypothesis why things are ending up differently. It would be interesting to see what the letter frequency is of the words of the average persons <a href="http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/howmany.htm" rel="nofollow">vocabulary</a>. They say that the average person uses between 10,000 and 25,000 words depending on their level of education. So although E may have the highest frequency in the English language, that may not be true of those 10,000 to 25,000 words. You would think, but here’s my hypothesis why things are ending up differently.

It would be interesting to see what the letter frequency is of the words of the average persons vocabulary. They say that the average person uses between 10,000 and 25,000 words depending on their level of education. So although E may have the highest frequency in the English language, that may not be true of those 10,000 to 25,000 words.

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