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'.
| 'me' | '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.
