On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Frank Schwach <fs5@sanger.ac.uk> wrote:

> funny thing is: if you actually DO google for "Guide for the unwilling R
> User" you basically only get hits to this mailing list and this very thread
> :)
>

I got a different set of results for the same search. While there were links
to posts to mailing list I also had present to me at least one hit for the
Patrick Burns' document. As someone who worked in text retrieval for 30+
years I'm not surprised that we are getting different results sets from
Google. PageRank isn't the only feature of Google. Try rerunning your search
at another time of day; you may be surprised by the variablility in the
results you get back.


> I guess you have taken this offline then?
>

Or you might want to read this recent news item from UK newspaper The
Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/12/google-personalisation-internet-data-filtering

If you have a Google account (such as GMail or Blogger) try logging out and
then conducting your search.

Regards, Trevor.

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