>A couple of my friends were thinking of using stuff like searchbots and
>numbers of search-engine hits (getting stats out of things like AltaVista)
>to track spread of ideas... but I can't see AT ALL how /that/ would work,
>cos I've got no idea how they were going to go about getting the stats.
It should be reasonably easy to track a catch phrase (if it is sufficiently
long and rare) propagating through Usenet using the search engine at
www.dejanews.com.
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