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Hi Gray,
Google doesn't know it all. I would say simply: B follows A. 'After' isn't really needed because that idea of 'after' is already contained in the verb 'follow'.
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| #5 (permalink) Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:56 am What should I follow? |
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| Gray wrote: |
| Yes, I was pretty much sure about the option A until the google search confused me. It means millions are using it incorrectly. I would say I am fortunate to have it cleared. |
Hi Gray
Did you know that you will only get millions of Google results for "follows after" if you do not enclose those two words in quotations marks?
Google is a handy tool, but like any tool, you need to learn how to use it -- and that includes looking at the results you get and analyzing them. Raw numbers often don't tell you very much, or can be quite misleading.
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| Trust Google implicitly is not a very good idea. |
I agree, and that applies to lots more than just Google.
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| #6 (permalink) Wed Mar 18, 2009 20:04 pm What should I follow? |
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| AmYankee wrote: |
| Did you know that you will only get millions of Google results for "follows after" if you do not enclose those two words in quotations marks? |
Yes Amy, I did know that.
| AmYankee wrote: |
Google is a handy tool, but like any tool, you need to learn how to use it -- and that includes looking at the results you get and analyzing them. Raw numbers often don't tell you very much, or can be quite misleading.
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Exactly! Google has given us a great tool to analyze the text but we don't have a machine which could understand natural languages (we humans should be proud of our languages and our ability to interpret those  ).
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This reminds me of the story of google itself. Someone misspelled that word and it became 'google' ...which was unintentional