[Noisebridge-discuss] [HAIRSPLITTING] Re: 5 geek fallacies

[Sai Emrys]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Jesse Zbikowski
<embeddedlinuxguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> This argument is an example of the Google Fallacy: that truth of a
> proposition can be ascertained by the number of documents matching
> your search request.
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q="helen+keller+was+a+nazi"

Unlike your search, Seth's is not attempting to use popularity to
determine historical facts, but to determine the *popularity* of a
collocation.

And also, he's right. "Commit" is the normal verb used for fallacies.

- Sai