[Foundation-l] What? Why? Who?

Sat Aug 27 19:12:10 UTC 2005

On 8/27/05, Dan Grey <dangrey at 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.