So when xorxes said that he got 50,500,000 hits for "I hear you ask" (it's up to 50,700,000 now for me) he means that that specific _expression_ comes up that many times not just pages containing all those words.
And all results on the first page are close fits for the usage that xorxes describes.
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:46 AM, John E Clifford
<kali9putra@yahoo.com> wrote:
Well given the frequency of "I" and :you" and probably of "hear" and "asking".
and given the quirks of search engines, I am not too surprised at 50 million
"hits". But you have come up with at least one case that actually used the
_expression_, and I suppose there are many (not a million, though) more.
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