TheWhippinpost - 10:30 pm on May 15, 2008 (gmt 0)

Kiss Brett's "Steps to 15,000 visitors" thingummyjig article then - It'd take a week to write an article employing the OP's theory.

If you fine-grain it, it becomes difficult because you are assuming the SE's are using a dictionary-thesaurus platform to fuel the algos.

Language is fluid, however, and if the workings of Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is anything to go by, there is no need for a traditional dictionary/thesaurus... nor is it necessary to "know" what words mean.

So basically, you can use a thesaurus, by all means (it will help), but to use it for pure SE economics, don't waste your time: the tilde operator (in Google) shows the difference between academic word-relations, and real-world, "actively monitored", relations, computationally derived.