Timeline for Google is not General Reference
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| Apr 12, 2016 at 10:50 | comment | added | TrevorD | @curiousdannii: Yes it is different. If someone quotes a dictionary as their source, someone else can look for the same word in another copy of that dictionary (hard copy or online) and (usually) find the same answer (assuming the dictionary had not been updated in the meantime). If someone quotes "Google" as their source, the search may not be reproducible: you need to know exactly what search term they used; how they entered it; which national 'version' of Google they used; etc.. Also, Google results can change over time. | |
| Nov 17, 2014 at 23:14 | comment | added | curiousdannii | This is no different from getting different results from different dictionaries. | |
| Aug 9, 2013 at 12:40 | history | answered | TrevorD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |