Can you gauge the reliability of a car using google search?

[Reardy Mister]

Here's an excercise:

Get two google pages open and in one type "VW Golf 1.5" and in the other type "Renault Megane 1.5" but leave the cursor in the search box and wait for the auto suggest options to appear underneath. Observe the auto-suggest options for each. Then complete each search critieria by adding the word "faults" to each and compare the results.

Can the reliability of a car be measured this way? Ok, there's two sides to every story but there's no smoke without fire right? Just the fact there is at least one page of results for problems on one and not even a page for the other, must give us some clue about which one makes a better purchase or why one is more expensive than the other?

[Deluded]

Doubt it.

No one ever comes on the internet to post how perfectly reliable their car is. It might give you an idea of the most common faults though.

[Jw Vw]

Deluded said:

Doubt it.

No one ever comes on the internet to post how perfectly reliable their car is. It might give you an idea of the most common faults though.

This.

I would rather use current/previous owners knowledge and experiences on a site such as this rather than anything a google search may throw up.