Kevin O'Malley <kevmol...@gmail.com> wrote: There was a software package called "cold fusion" which can obscure the > results as well as the interest. >
It turns out this is not an issue with ngram. "ColdFusion" the programming language is one word with peculiar capitalization, and ngram is case sensitive. Here is a search for "cold fusion" versus "ColdFusion:" https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22+cold+fusion+%22%2C+ColdFusion&year_start=1980&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2C%22%20cold%20fusion%20%22%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CColdFusion%3B%2Cc0 "ColdFusion" is much more common. Separate searches show that "ColdFusion" peaks at 0.00011% compared to 0.0000007% for "cold fusion." To filter out news of "ColdFusion" with Google alerts, use this parameter string: cold fusion -coldfusion -"web hosting" LENR needs to repackage their name. Maybe something like Anomalous > Heating Event. > This would only confuse the issue and make it harder to find old papers. It makes no difference what you call it. - Jed
