{"id":39848,"date":"2011-05-30T14:08:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T18:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/39848\/search-engine-results-valid-statistics\/"},"modified":"2011-05-30T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T18:08:08","slug":"search-engine-results-valid-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/39848\/search-engine-results-valid-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Search Engine Results as Valid Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can use your desired search engine with any phrase you want and can probably get results from thousands to millions.  This is totally meaningless.  Many of the results have absolutely nothing to do with the phrase you used and some even claim the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>Valid statistics are akin the the art of lying in the first place.  You can prove with statistics both sides of any argument.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can use your desired search engine with any phrase you want and can probably get results from thousands to millions. This is totally meaningless. Many of the results have absolutely nothing to do with the phrase you used and some even claim the opposite. Valid statistics are akin the the art of lying in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendburst","category-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}