Am I Kafka's K_ or Lewis Carroll's Alice?

July 13, 2009 10:45 PM

Search engine and research geeks: please help. Google gives me four or five hundred hits for the quoted phrase "the literature is ambiguous.". For the phrase "the literature is unambiguous", we get 40X more results (@22,000). Chalk it up to academic hubris? But then the first phrase yields twenty or so good pages, while the second: only three pages before it realizes it is falling into the pit of redundancy. To complicate matters, trying to winnow the search by limiting it with the caveat: site:edu gives the first phrase 18K sites, where "site:edu" tacked on to the second phrase comes up with a "sorry, no documents found" response. Ideas, anyone?
posted by kozad (10 comments total)

The author's knowledge of where to post an AskMe question is ambiguous.
posted by davejay at 10:47 PM on July 13, 2009

IN B4 UNAMBIGUOUS 404!
posted by sebas at 10:50 PM on July 13, 2009

Clearly they ought to study the literature.
posted by mek at 10:52 PM on July 13, 2009

I'm actually in panic trying to think of something funny to type before the thread closes.
posted by roll truck roll at 10:53 PM on July 13, 2009

My unambiggenous answer will be found in AskMeFi.
posted by awfurby at 10:54 PM on July 13, 2009

:|
posted by MaryDellamorte at 10:55 PM on July 13, 2009

Chalk it up to academic hubris?
posted by mek at 10:56 PM on July 13, 2009

\o/
posted by davejay at 10:56 PM on July 13, 2009

This question is totally uncromulent.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:57 PM on July 13, 2009

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posted by Avenger at 10:58 PM on July 13, 2009