ARNOLD KLING
August 14, 2011
The Top Political Contributors
August 11, 2011
Gender and the New Commanding Heights
August 11, 2011
Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
August 11, 2011
Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
August 10, 2011
Real and Nominal Bond Yields
BRYAN CAPLAN
August 14, 2011
The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
August 12, 2011
The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
August 12, 2011
Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
August 11, 2011
The Theory of Time and Frittering
August 10, 2011
Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
August 8, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken"
August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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Interestingly, the first two hits are for
"... Grandchild! Free ..."
For any google search, the so-called "number of google hits" reported at the top of the google page is meaningless and misleading.
When you search for the phrase "Bryan Caplan", google declares 87,000 pages associated with that search, but if you search for:
"Bryan Caplan" -econlog
(i.e. pages containing "Bryan Caplan" and NOT containing the word econlog), google declares 256,000 associated pages.
When google declares the 87,000 associated pages, it only gives you access to 700 or 800 of them. The other 86,000 associated pages essentially don't exist. Or the great majority of them don't the phrase "Bryan Caplan". Or more exactly, the number 87,000 is just devoid of meaning. It's especially devoid of meaning for reported associated pages numbering in the hundreds of thousands or millions, as is the case for "childfree".
Childfree is PC for childless. My child is childless... but then she is just 3.
Very clever Bryan. :) I'll be thinking about that one for some time.