Table 1.
Hits (and percentages) on Google News and Google Scholar for uses of various metaphors to describe genetic modification.
| Google hits | Editing | Engineering | Hacking | Modification | Surgery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All time | |||||
| News | 91,800 (48.79%) | 73,900 (39.28%) | 92 (0.04%) | 22,200 (11.80%) | 157 (0.08%) |
| Scholar | 10,800 (22.34%) | 18,000 (37.23%) | 26 (0.05%) | 18,200 (37.76%) | 1,320 (2.73%) |
| 2016 | |||||
| News | 31,400 (62.20%) | 15,200 (30.11%) | 18 (0.04%) | 3,830 (7.59%) | 31 (0.06%) |
| Scholar | 3,500 (15.10%) | 13,400 (57.82%) | 2 (0.00%) | 6,220 (26.84%) | 52 (0.22%) |
Raw number of hits (and percentages) from Google News and Google Scholar all time and in 2016 alone. Results were obtained by searching Google for (“genetic [metaphor]” OR “gene [metaphor]”).