Bob, i'm confused.
You try a search with "Google Scholar" or with "Google Insights for search"?

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useful references for "Google Insights for search":

* matching terms:
http://www.google.com/support/insights/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=94777

* interpreting search volumes:
http://www.google.com/support/insights/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=92769

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useful references for "Google Scholar"

http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/refinesearch.html

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Seems that the OR option in "Google Scholar" doesn't work.
Try to conctact the Google Scholar Support Centre:
http://www.google.com/support/scholar/bin/request.py?contact_type=general


On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
<muenchen@utk.edu>wrote:

>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Joris Meys [mailto:jorismeys@gmail.com]
> >Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 10:10 PM
> >To: Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
> >Cc: Dario Solari; r-help@r-project.org
> >Subject: Re: [R] Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata...
> >
> >>>I had taken the opposite tack with Google Trends by subtracting
> >> keywords
> >>>like:
> >>>SAS -shoes -airlines -sonar...
> >>>but never got as good results as that beautiful "X code for" search.
> >>>When you see the end-of-semester panic bumps in traffic, you know
> >> you're
> >>>nailing it!
> >>
> >> I have to eat those words already. The "R code for" search that
> showed
> >a
> >> peak every December did not have quotes around it, so it was
> searching
> >> for those three words not the complete phrase. When you add the
> >quotes,
> >> the peaks vanish.
> >
> >Don't swallow! You're looking through search terms, not through web
> >pages. R code for regression, regression code R etc. are all valid
> >searches, no quotation marks needed.
>
> I wondered why those clear peaks had vanished when I added quotes.
> Here's one that combines the search terms without the quotes. It shows
> several March/April & October/November peaks:
>
> http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=r%20code%20for%2Br%20manual%2Br
> %20tutorial%2Br%20graph%2Csas%20code%20for%2Bsas%20manual%2Bsas%20tutori
> al%2Bsas%20graph%2Cspss%20code%20for%2Bspss%20manual%2Bspss%20tutorial%2
> Bspss%20graph%2Cstata%20code%20for%2Bstata%20manual%2Bstata%20tutorial%2
> Bstata%20graph%2Cs-plus%20code%20for%2Bs-plus%20manual%2Bs-plus%20tutori
> al%2Bs-plus%20graph&cmpt=q
>
> I've been trying to make sense of Google Scholar searches. I'm obviously
> missing something basic. Here are two searches on www.google.com:
>
> sas - gets 68M hits
> sas OR spss - gets 74.3M hits. A bigger number as "OR" would imply.
>
> But when I do the same searches on scholar.google.com, here's what I
> get:
>
> sas - gets 4.6M hits
> sas OR spss - gets 1.65M hits
>
> How on earth can an "OR" get you less??
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
>
> >
> >http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=code%20for%20r%2Ccode%20for%20
> S
> >AS%2Ccode%20for%20SPSS%2Ccode%20for%20matlab&cmpt=q
> >
> >This one is nice too. You can see that the bump in the autumn semester
> >for R is replacing the one for Matlab. Then in the spring semester
> >Matlab stays high but R drops. And both the US and India always have a
> >very large search index, whereas the rest of the world is essentially
> >worthless. Which leads me to the conclusion that : 1) The results are
> >probably coming from google.com, excluding local versions, and 2) in
> >the US (and India), statistics is mainly taught in the autumn
> >semester. Given the fact that daylight has a beneficial effect on the
> >emotional well being, the impopularity of statistics is likely caused
> >by unfortunate scheduling.
> >
> >Forget Excel. Google rocks! ;-)
> >
> >Cheers
> >Joris
> >
> >>
> >> Once you go the phrase route, you gain precision but end up with zero
> >> counts on various phrases. I avoided that by combining them with "+"
> >to
> >> get enough to plot. The resulting graph shows SAS dominant until
> >> mid-2006 when SPSS takes the top position, followed by R, SAS, Stata
> >in
> >> order:
> >>
> >>
> >http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22r%20code%20for%22%2B%22r%20
> m
> >>
> >anual%22%2B%22r%20tutorial%22%2B%22r%20graph%22%2C%22sas%20code%20for%2
> 2
> >>
> >%2B%22sas%20manual%22%2B%22sas%20tutorial%22%2B%22sas%20graph%22%2C%22s
> p
> >>
> >ss%20code%20for%22%2B%22spss%20manual%22%2B%22spss%20tutorial%22%2B%22s
> p
> >>
> >ss%20graph%22%2C%22stata%20code%20for%22%2B%22stata%20manual%22%2B%22st
> a
> >> ta%20tutorial%22%2B%22stata%20graph%22%2C%22s-
> >plus%20code%20for%22%2B%22
> >> s-plus%20manual%22%2Bs-plus%20tutorial%22%2B%22s-
> >plus%20graph%22&cmpt=q
> >>
> >> This might be a good one to add to http://r4stats.com/popularity
> >>
> >> Bob
> >>
> >>>
> >>>I see that there's a car, the R Code Mustang, that adding "for" gets
> >> rid
> >>>of.
> >>>
> >>>Thanks for getting me back on a topic that I had given up on!
> >>>
> >>>Bob
> >>>
> >>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>From: r-help-bounces@r-project.org
> >>>[mailto:r-help-bounces@r-project.org]
> >>>>On Behalf Of Joris Meys
> >>>>Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 7:56 PM
> >>>>To: Dario Solari
> >>>>Cc: r-help@r-project.org
> >>>>Subject: Re: [R] Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata...
> >>>>
> >>>>Nice idea, but quite sensitive to search terms, if you compare your
> >>>>result on "... code" with "... code for":
> >>>>http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=r%20code%20for%2Csas%20code
> %
> >2
> >> 0
> >>>f
> >>>>or%2Cspss%20code%20for&cmpt=q
> >>>>
> >>>>On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Dario Solari
> >> <dario.solari@gmail.com>
> >>>>wrote:
> >>>>> First: excuse for my english
> >>>>>
> >>>>> My opinion: a useful font for measuring "popoularity" can be
> Google
> >>>>> Insights for Search - http://www.google.com/insights/search/#
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Every person using a software like R, SAS, SPSS needs first to
> >learn
> >>>>> it. So probably he make a web-search for a manual, a tutorial, a
> >>>>> guide. One can measure the share of this kind of serach query.
> >>>>> This kind of results can be useful to determine trends of
> >>>>> "popularity".
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Example 1: "R tutorial/manual/guide", "SAS tutorial/manual/guide",
> >>>>> "SPSS tutorial/manual/guide"
> >>>>>
> >>>>http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22r%20tutorial%22%2B%22r%2
> 0
> >m
> >> a
> >>>n
> >>>>ual%22%2B%22r%20guide%22%2B%22r%20vignette%22%2C%22spss%20tutorial%2
> 2
> >%
> >> 2
> >>>B
> >>>>%22spss%20manual%22%2B%22spss%20guide%22%2C%22sas%20tutorial%22%2B%2
> 2
> >s
> >> a
> >>>s
> >>>>%20manual%22%2B%22sas%20guide%22&cmpt=q
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Example 2: "R software", "SAS software", "SPSS software"
> >>>>>
> >>>>http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22r%20software%22%2C%22sps
> s
> >%
> >> 2
> >>>0
> >>>>software%22%2C%22sas%20software%22&cmpt=q
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Example 3: "R code", "SAS code", "SPSS code"
> >>>>>
> >>>>http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22r%20code%22%2C%22spss%20
> c
> >o
> >> d
> >>>e
> >>>>%22%2C%22sas%20code%22&cmpt=q
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Example 4: "R graph", "SAS graph", "SPSS graph"
> >>>>>
> >>>>http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22r%20graph%22%2C%22spss%2
> 0
> >g
> >> r
> >>>a
> >>>>ph%22%2C%22sas%20graph%22&cmpt=q
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Example 5: "R regression", "SAS regression", "SPSS regression"
> >>>>>
> >>>>http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22r%20regression%22%2C%22s
> p
> >s
> >> s
> >>>%
> >>>>20regression%22%2C%22sas%20regression%22&cmpt=q
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Some example are cross-software (learning needs - Example1), other
> >>>can
> >>>>> be biased by the tarditional use of that software (in SPSS usually
> >>>you
> >>>>> don't manipulate graph, i think)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ______________________________________________
> >>>>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list
> >>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> >>>>> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-
> >>>>guide.html
> >>>>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>--
> >>>>Joris Meys
> >>>>Statistical consultant
> >>>>
> >>>>Ghent University
> >>>>Faculty of Bioscience Engineering
> >>>>Department of Applied mathematics, biometrics and process control
> >>>>
> >>>>tel : +32 9 264 59 87
> >>>>Joris.Meys@Ugent.be
> >>>>-------------------------------
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> >>>>
> >>>>______________________________________________
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> >>>>guide.html
> >>>>and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> >>>
> >>>______________________________________________
> >>>R-help@r-project.org mailing list
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> >>>PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-
> >>>guide.html
> >>>and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >--
> >Joris Meys
> >Statistical consultant
> >
> >Ghent University
> >Faculty of Bioscience Engineering
> >Department of Applied mathematics, biometrics and process control
> >
> >tel : +32 9 264 59 87
> >Joris.Meys@Ugent.be
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