How many web pages are about aliens?

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Posted by SimosKosmetatos 878 days ago (Editorial)

How can we calculate the number of web pages reffering to aliens?

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Written by AnswersQuestions1985
878 days ago

We can use a couple of google strings to calculate the number of websites indexed by google related to the term "aliens".

Allinanchor:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=allinanchor%3Aaliens&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enGB222GB222&aq=t

This is the number of websites that link to a specific page with the term "alien" which equals = 34,700,000 pages.

Next we can refine a search term pulling out unwanted words and only finding exact terms;

using this query; "aliens" -movies -toys -film -imdb -music -law

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enGB222GB222&q=%22aliens%22+-movies+-toys+-film+-imdb+-music+-law&btnG=Search&meta=

The results are now related to sites containing the word "alien" without the terms +-movies+-toys+-film+-imdb+-music+-law

The results equal; 18,600,000 results.

Hope it Helps.

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