On: How Facebook killed spam

[guptaneil]

"(Indeed, search Google for “stop Farmville notifications,” and you’ll get over 50,000 results.)"

Why do people always insist on citing the number of Google search results as a measure for popularity?

[gms → guptaneil]

It's worse in this case since the author didn't include the double quotes around her query string. Doing so, I get 8680 results.