[Buddha-l] Religious violence, Buddhist violence and spelling

[R B Basham]

Pundits, and Nots,


It took a few seconds of diversion to determine that not only are some
unaware (of 'hit count'), some live in a dream and some misspeak. I
haven't seen the like outside of my subjugation in graduate school, Faux
Noose, and WSJ OpEd. Has Murdoch purchased interest in buddha-l?

The deductive logic of google (as  well as other search engines) appears
to be other than entertainingly presented by pundits on buddha-l:

'sparrow' --   14,000,000 hits
'hawk'    --   30,000,000 hits
'sparrow hawk' -- 842,000 hits  [obviously not the 'union' of the above]
'sparrow +hawk' --389,000 hits  [conjunctive, AND, shorthand]

clusty.com which uses a limited web-search presents results organized by
content as below: 

'sparrow' --   249 All results
+birds    --    40 [sparrow AND birds]
...
+hawk     --     5 [sparrow AND hawk]


Richard Basham


PS: Actual frequency counts (of unique searches) are available for some
search-engines but let another dig that out of their mind or that "gem
from the grains of sand in the desert known as 'The Internet'" @1995.