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Y-Combinator -vs- Paul Graham

Paul Graham is famous for creating Y Combinator, a venture firm specializing in funding early stage startups. But what is their linguistic intersection?

What the results mean.

Try another two words:

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Who's the most famous Beatle?

I was just listening to Revolver one of my favourite Beatles albums. So when John, Paul, Ringo and George are searched against "The Beatles" who has the greatest Lingustic Intersection? An interesting question, now tested scientifically with the Google Concepts machine...

Beatle	Score
George Harrison	16.74
John Lennon	13.29
Paul McCartney	12.31
Ringo Starr	6.89

Have a try yourself (Explanation here):

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Linguistic Intersections: Early Finds

I have been trying out the Google Concepts linguistic intersection calculator (see 'Google Concepts Returns'). Here's what I have found so far...

• Politics
  Putting to rest an old debate, we discover that a search for 'Iraq' and 'WMD' yields a fairly high L.I. Score of 5.91. However, I imagine that by now the search has all but stopped.
  On the other hand the connection between 'Iraq' and '9/11' is a bit more certain with a score of 14.77
  
• Programming and tea
  Tea and programming (1.48) go together like hand in glove (2.95). But it appears that when drinking tea, cake (13.29) rules over biscuits (6.89); but cake php¹ with an score of 1.48 has some way to go.
  
• Ego Googling
  Yes, yes, too strong a temptation ... my name gives a score of 3.45. How about yours?
  
• Where I live
  Barcelona is hotter (1.97) than it is cool (1.48), but quite noisy (3.45) without being too smelly (0.98) ... shurely shome mishtake?
  Also, Barcelona seems to be more catalan (7.39) than spanish (4.92), something that is bound to please the catalans.

Found anything interesting yourself? Write to me.

¹Cake PHP, the fantastic rapid development framework for php based on Rails

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Google Concepts Returns

Google Concepts is a gadget I made which finds the number of pages in Google relating to two words or phrases. It then finds the number of pages containing both of these terms and computes a sort of 'linguistic intersection' of the two.

Examples

Searching for 'me' and 'you' gives a score of 34.96. There are 423.000.000 pages pages found by Google containing the word 'me' and 1.870.000.000 pages containing the word 'you'. Also, there are 310.000.000 pages containing both 'me' and 'you' which is represented below by the blue bars. The dark blue bar is the intersection of 'me' and 'you'.

The dark middle section of the bar is the ratio of hits for both words (combined), to the total hits for the words separately. The thinner the dark-blue bar, the fewer pages contain both words compared to the words individually. The 'score' is the size of the dark blue bar compared to a search for 'hello' and 'hello', a combination which is almost entirely symmetrical.

If you want to do something like this yourself, you might be interested in Google Hacks by Rael Dornfest.

Give it a go:

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