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Old 06-Mar-2007, 17:09
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Default Re: The Google of (fill in the blank)

I imagine this term was coined on the analogy of the BE idiom "the Rolls Royce of" (referring to an iconic high-quality motor car brand). Google shows "Google of" as outnumbering "Rolls Royce of" by about 3 hits to 2; but that corpus is rather biased. . BNC has "the Rolls Royce of" outnumbering "the Google of" by 4 hits to 0. And even Google, if restricted to UK pages, shows RR as outnumbering G.

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