First things first. I use Google more often than FT search. I also know, without refining the search parameter, results can be recounted in Google key-word per search.
Originally Posted by
Ex Amex Card
Originally Posted by
lin821
Post Count: RyanAir (=493) vs. China Southern (>>500)
Thread Count: RyanAir (=498) vs. China Southern (=497)
I don't know how scientific it is but I tried a search on Google search for FT posts and got these results:
China Southern 553 results.
Ryanair 3,140 results.
easyJet 13,100 results.
Originally Posted by
judolphin
The fact it's apparently outnumbered six to 25 times, should say something.
Did you try use "CZ" for China Southern in Google search as well? Quite a few FTers refer China Southern as CZ.
(1).
CZ on FT/forum using Google/ncr: 1020
(2).
"China Southern" on FT/forum using Google/ncr: 557
(3).
RyanAir on FT/forum using Google/ncr: 3160
(4).
easyJet on FT/forum using Google/ncr:
1800 (quite different from
Ex Amex Card's. Did you happen to make a typo on 131,00 or something?
)
ps. Don't add up (1) & (2) since they can be overlapping of the same airline.
pps. the 3160 results in (3) are not necessarily mutually exclusive (meaning some, or even many, of them can be the same posts/threads). Same applies to (1), (2), & (4).
I don't know how many of the Google results are mutually exclusive but I do know FT search, even though not perfect, gives you
exclusive results per FT Search:
"CZ" search as threads on all FT fora using FT Search: 499 threads
"CZ"search as posts on FT using FT Search: 497 posts
"China Southern" search as threads on all FT fora using FT Search: 497 threads
"China Southern" search as posts on all FT fora using FT Search: >>500 posts
RyanAir search as threads on all FT fora using FT Search: 498 threads
RyanAir search as posts on all FT fora using FT Search: 497 posts
Per thread title search:
RyanAir as keyword in thread titles on all FT fora: 490 threads
"China Southern" as keyword in thread titles on all FT fora: 191 threads
CZ as keyword in thread titles on all FT fora: 103 threads
Originally Posted by
judolphin
Whether RyanAir's numbers are good enough indicators for its own forum is up to TBers.
ETA:
ps. I didn't specify the date ranges for my preliminary FT searches. I just double checked and it seems my search results from performing FT Search are only backdated to mid-2007. I suspect FT search automatically stops feeding older posts/threads when the results are hitting close to the 500 cap.
A further examination and analysis of FT post/threads on RyanAir/easyJet over the years (and possibly cross different duration should be conducted by those who are interested, so TBers can learn more about the true data.