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Dear colleagues,

Several years ago I performed an experiment with series of search request to Google Scholar. For every taxonomic name and for every combination of two taxonomic names, I counted number of hits. The assumption was to use the relative number of hits as a measure to taxonomic "similarity". Here is a presentation which comes into more details: http://ashipunov.info/shipunov/os/google/google.pdf

I hope that the approach in general and some results may be of interest to the community.
 
With best wishes,
 
Alexey Shipunov