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title: Google search for meaning
date: "2005-01-29T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 767
description: Paul Vitanyi and Rudi Cilibrasi used Google hit counts to calculate the similarity between words. This method leverages search engine statistics to identify semantic relationships based on the frequency of specific word pairings.
tags: [google-search, computational-linguistics]
---

[Google's search for meaning](http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6924). Paul Vitanyi and Rudi Cilibrasi use Google to determine the similarity of words. (Pairs of words that get higher hits are more similar to each other.)