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Old May 15, 2006 | 1:50 am
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Originally Posted by serfty
I've researched this a bit more ans I am not sure the information presented is representative. I believe it looks for search incidents containing the words requested.

Try this link: staralliance, oneworld, skyteam.

or this: star alliance, one world, sky team.
You are of course correct, although I suspect that Google counts the words as a continuous block between sentences.

I suspect that "Star Alliance", "SkyTeam" and "OneWorld" would be the appropriate way to look considering ST and OW don't have a space in the middle.

Unfortunately the addition of the requisite double parentheses appears to make a difference:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22St...o=all&date=all

vs

http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22St...o=all&date=all
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