Hi all,
I have a case where the claimant has filed a case about untrue words that appear on google suggested words during a search with their name. So, the exact number of searches that appear on google suggestion is asked about. Those untrue words start to appear on google suggestion when you start to type the company's name. The court wants to find out exact number of searches, such as how many people have seen or clicked on these suggested words?
So, I have made research if we could determine the exact number of all searches of a word made on google. I have found the following api, which shows you the number of searches about any word or a group of words. The words after q= could be replaced with any other word. But I am not sure about whether the numbers are reliable.
http//
SEcondly, I have come across other ways of finding out search numbers such as google adwords from the address below.
https://
But still, I am not sure about %100 accuracy of numbers given by these sites, because different numbers come out.
Do you any other way or are you sure about these numbers of searches on above adress are reliable?
Regards,
By extension from this
http//homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/google-result-counts-are-a-meaningless-metric.html
I personally consider *any* number derived from google completely UNlike accurate.
Just for the record with your george bush example you have touched the issue about polysemic words, that may (or may not) apply to you real terms of search and further make the returned numbers inaccurate (from the same link above)
Other problems include polysemic words (words with multiple meanings, such as "bush"), and, as Lionel Beehner points out, people, places, and things that share the same names. So even if the hit counts were correct, they still wouldn't necessarily be meaningful.
jaclaz