Strange - McMaster has 31 million hits on google
01-17-2011 at 11:12 PM
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Strange - McMaster has 31 million hits on google
So, I stumbled upon a strange occurrence on the Internet regarding our university. Take a look.
If you type in "McMaster University" in google the number of hits you'll get is ~31mil page results. It seemed quite high, so I tried typing in "University of Toronto" and it only got 17mil hits. I said to myself, wait that doesn't make sense, wouldn't uoft be higher? And so the questions begin...
Typed in google (without quotes):
"McMaster University" - 31.3 M
"University of Toronto" - 17 M
"University of Waterloo" - 2.9 M
"University of Western Ontario" - 3.4 M
"University of British Columbia" - 22.1 M
"Queens University" - 2.3 M
"York University" 60.2 M ***PWNED US ALL
as some people have pointed out the quotations may be the game changer. =P
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01-17-2011 at 11:17 PM
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Poor Western, they only have 3 million hits..
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01-17-2011 at 11:18 PM
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I don't think it has anything to do with your connection. I just tried it too and got the same results.
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01-17-2011 at 11:25 PM
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must be about the food strike
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01-17-2011 at 11:27 PM
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i guess people caught word of me going here
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01-17-2011 at 11:31 PM
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York only got popular because of the strike.. Psh, York....
Also, correction, I'm getting 55.8 M 
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01-17-2011 at 11:37 PM
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Originally Posted by ~*Sara*~
York only got popular because of the strike.. Psh, York....
Also, correction, I'm getting 55.8 M |
Yea it's all relative to how fast ur connection is i guess. |
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01-17-2011 at 11:50 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lux
So, I stumbled upon a strange occurrence on the Internet regarding our university. Take a look.
If you type in "McMaster University" in google the number of hits you'll get is ~31mil page results. It seemed quite high, so I tried typing in "University of Toronto" and it only got 17mil hits. I said to myself, wait that doesn't make sense, wouldn't uoft be higher? And so the questions begin...
Typed in google:
"McMaster University" - 31.3 M
"University of Toronto" - 17 M
"University of Waterloo" - 2.9 M
"University of Western Ontario" - 3.4 M
"University of British Columbia" - 22.1 M
"Queens University" - 2.3 M
"York University" 60.2 M ***PWNED US ALL
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I'm pretty sure the results are skewed because Google also seems to add results for each word individually.
I also noticed that when you say you searched "McMaster University", you actually mean you searched McMaster University, without the quotes. If you add the quotes, you get significantly fewer results since Google searches for that specific set of words.
It also sort of explains why York U and UBC have such high results: because "York", "British" and "Columbia" are searches that would turn up a lot of results on their own.
This is just my best guess, and I'm probably wrong to an extent since if I was dead-on, then I'd expect UBC to bring up way more results.
/waits for someone to correct me
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01-18-2011 at 12:08 AM
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Entropy's right. "McMaster University" gets 4 M and "York Univeristy" get 7 M. I really don't think the number of google hits means anything though
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01-18-2011 at 04:10 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lux
So, I stumbled upon a strange occurrence on the Internet regarding our university. Take a look.
If you type in "McMaster University" in google the number of hits you'll get is ~31mil page results. It seemed quite high, so I tried typing in "University of Toronto" and it only got 17mil hits. I said to myself, wait that doesn't make sense, wouldn't uoft be higher? And so the questions begin...
Typed in google (without quotes):
"McMaster University" - 31.3 M
"University of Toronto" - 17 M
"University of Waterloo" - 2.9 M
"University of Western Ontario" - 3.4 M
"University of British Columbia" - 22.1 M
"Queens University" - 2.3 M
"York University" 60.2 M ***PWNED US ALL
as some people have pointed out the quotations may be the game changer. =P
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Type it with quotations so that it only searches for hits that have those words in a row. |
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01-18-2011 at 08:40 AM
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Google Trends search for McMaster (I didn't include the term "university" since most searches are still from Hamilton and other uses for McMaster wouldn't have any significant effect on the overall trend). Seems like Mac's getting less popular in comparison to previous years, but Mick Bhatia's research  combined with the recent strikes  has definitely boosted search hits.
What's much more interesting though is MUGSI's yearly trends...notice those spikes? 
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01-18-2011 at 08:49 AM
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LOL cursed mugsi and the course selection!!!!!!!!
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01-18-2011 at 10:32 AM
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The local maximum values are the days that they release SOLAR for the Faculty of Science.  |
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01-18-2011 at 10:56 AM
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more hits because of more strikes?
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01-18-2011 at 11:09 AM
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more hits because of more strikes?
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Pretty much. The strike has impacts at a number of different levels & people, who would be searching up McMaster to see what's up and whether the strike has ended yet.
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