[quote name=\'Speedy G\' date=\'Jun 2 2004, 08:23 AM\'] I thought about that when I came up with the question. "World series titles" doesn't give any quick hit, and the player/PAF would more likely use "titles" as given in the question. "World series champions" gets hits related to poker more often than baseball. [/quote]
We agree to disagree, then. Half of using Google effectively (and I hope that colleges are teaching this stuff these days as part of their journalism programs - I got out of school right before graphical browsing hit it big, so I had to learn it myself) is knowing the search terms (or synonyms thereof) to use to acheive the result you want. I would NEVER use "titles" in that search, whether or not it was in the question, because that is such a broad word with so many different meanings that there's no questions it's going to offer up false positives.
Similarly, like you said, "champions" is more likely to turn up a list of results by year. Closer, but also useless in a time-constrained situation, we agree on that.
No, I knew I needed a list of WORLD SERIES teams, ranked in order of number of CHAMPIONSHIPS. That's why I chose the search terms I did, and all of that reasoning was done pretty much instantly. If I had to compile a PAF list to appear on the show, I would make sure that whoever I chose to be my Google expert was just that, a search-term expert, and capable of performing similar reasoning when the chips were down.
