On 8/27/05, Dan Grey dangrey@gmail.com wrote:
So when the BBC say "top searches" on this page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/pan/
they're just lying then?
I'd call it filtering, not lying. The site has to be family-friendly (http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/familyfriendly.shtml) so they make an editorial judgement about what goes into that section. It could never be an automatically generated list of "top searches".
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist2004.html
A 1-10 list of "popular queries" is actually a made up list? And you know this how, Angela?
No, not a made up list. It's a list of "popular queries" which is what they call it. That is very different from a claim that those are "most searched for terms". They're popular ones, not the top ones.
Angela.