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