Posted on 07/23/2020 3:30:14 PM PDT by HypatiaTaught
What to make of this? If you google any three digit number of Covid cases, you will results showing news stories with exactly that number.
Covid cases 389
Covid cases 732
Choose any three digits and news stories will pop with this exact number of Covid cases...
don’t use google, use duckduckgo
Many thoughts about this on these threads =>
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3858125/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3859215/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3859215/posts
I use Duckduckgo too
I am Duckie myself for about six years. No problems.
yep no problem for me either.
Yep, I’ve been in about a year. It’s fine.
It even works for [some] 4 digit numbers on DuckDuckGo.
I don’t use the phrase “google something.” I say use a search engine.
This was disputed two or three weeks ago. It must keep showing up on Facebook. Seems like every other day somebody posts here at free republic.
Most likely there have been so many articles reporting COVID-19 related data that each 3 digit number you try has been a part of reports from multiple places. So a good search engine finds them.
In a country of 340,000,000... and with millions of cases, statistically:
Trying this with 1 digit: millions of google stories
Trying this with 2 digits: hundreds of thousands of google stories
Trying this with 3 digits: thousands and thousands of google stories
Trying this with 4 digits: hundreds of google stories
Trying this with 5 digits: maybe 10, if that.
So, you can see that statistically speaking, 3 is a good number of digits to still get lots of hits with any number. with 5 digits, you’ll find lots of number combinations with no hits.
yawn...
What do you mean disputed? You can google any 3 or even 4 digit number and covid on google and it will bring up a hit for that many cases. I have tested it many times a week or so ago.
This doesn’t surprise me, as a matter of basic probability, The US has many geographic jurisdictions (states and cities), and they have been tracking cases daily in most of them since the early stages of the epidemic. That any three-digit number would show up in some story in an environment like that is the most probable outcome,
Google should be avoided if at all possible. Use Duck Dick Go instead. No tracking, ever.
Statistically this all might be quite normal. When you have everyone counting cases relentlessly showing you the cumulative total rather than the daily ups and downs you end up with a big stack of ever-increasing values for each location and the stack grows by little increments throughout the epidemic.
With enough locations, on any given day there are going to be little shovelfuls added for each - except for the outliers like Michigan , New York. Somewhere, some day out there this tally will rise by a selected number number for that day and there will be many just a few off from the pace. It’s actually random but growing about the same way across the country (and world) so it seems spooky to call a number and have Google “find it”.
It would be strange if it didn’t work.
Now the numbers of “cases” and even “deaths” are garbage at this point and should not be used to direct leftwing jerks like Whitless in MI to plan unending “waves”, punishing petulant citizens and trump voters with finger wagging. Look into “reporting delays” to see how you can create any trend you want, need. Why the president took control away from CDC causing immediate panic and projection from the Rats.
or StartPage
Does not work with 911.
And it is an obvious and transparent fraud.
Why Google continues to leave this in their search engine is a mystery.
These are not articles found be a search engine. The links and the articles are generated.
If you hit them enough times you will see the same articles come up with only the numbers changed. And the links do not work if you cut and paste them into a different browser.
They are fake news. To what purpose I cannot tell.
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