Tag: English language

NOTE: The PROPCASE Function

Here’s just a brief post about a function I just stumbled across. The PROPCASE function coverts a string to “proper case” wherein the first letter of each word is upper case and all others are lower case. Clearly this is a very useful thing for column …

QueryContest – Round 2

My post regarding QueryContest got an unexpected amount of interest. Quite apart from Chris@SAS’s comment regarding his use of GoogleFight, Neil emailed me to say:
Just been reading your blog. Similar fun can be had with these…

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Query Contest

Okay, I’m being a bit selfish with this post, but it may also give you some fun (and waste a lot of your time) over Christmas.

www.QueryContest.com compares the number of hits returned from a web search for two different terms, e.g. Beatles versus Rol…