{"id":490,"date":"2005-06-08T22:17:56","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T05:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2005-06-08T22:17:56","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T05:17:56","slug":"google-politicking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2005\/06\/google-politicking\/","title":{"rendered":"Google politicking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mymarkup.net\/blog\/archives\/004400.html#004400\" title=\"\">People<\/a> [Swedish] like to collect instances of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memefirst.com\/000544.html\" title=\"\">google journalism<\/a> &mdash; where journalists google a term and cite the number of hits they get back in support of whatever point it is they are trying to make.<\/p>\n<p>Today I heard what may have been the first case (can it be? Surely not) of Google politicking: Leif Pagrotsky, Sweden&#8217;s minister for education, research and culture, was speaking at a conference on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.se\/templates\/CommonPage.aspx?id=1467\" title=\"\">public diplomacy, nation branding, and Sweden&#8217;s image<\/a> [Swedish] when he made the point that Swedish culture is far more important to its image abroad than Swedish politics.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to illustrate this by mentioning how when he googled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en-us&amp;q=the+hives&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\" title=\"\">The Hives<\/a>, he got far more results back (1,890,000) than when he googled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en-us&amp;q=G\u00f6ran+Persson&amp;btnG=Search\" title=\"\">G\u00f6ran Persson<\/a> (836,000). Case closed.<\/p>\n<p>Or is it? First off, results vary depending on whether you encapsulate your search in quotes or not. Surrounded by accuracy-inducing quotation marks, &#8220;The Hives&#8221;&#8216;s (625,000) victory over &#8220;G\u00f6ran Persson&#8221; (540,000) is much less pronounced. But then you have to consider the fact that in English, <em>hives<\/em> moonlights as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aocd.org\/skin\/dermatologic_diseases\/urticaria.html\" title=\"\">skin condition<\/a>, hogging the Google hits. So, as long as G\u00f6ran Persson does not become a synonym for a wasting disease or somesuch, he will always labor at a disadvantage against hives in the google popularity stakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People [Swedish] like to collect instances of google journalism &mdash; where journalists google a term and cite the number of hits they get back in support of whatever point it is they are trying to make. Today I heard what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2005\/06\/google-politicking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-sweden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eNhC-7U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}