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Presidential elections?

Done.

Next question please.

Not so fast. WWW by a mile.

e-mail vs. web

E-mail wins!

Having said that, I still think you'll find "turbulent priest" is the generally accepted version.

Googlefight says you are right. 17.5K hits vs only 866 hits.

However, "Meddelsome Priest" comes in at a close second with 13.4K.

Having said that, I still think you'll find "turbulent priest" is the generally accepted version.

Googlefight says you are right. 17.5K hits vs only 866 hits.

However, "Meddelsome Priest" comes in at a close second with 13.4K.

The traditional human lifespan is three score and ten, not four score and ten. GoogleFight proves it!

While Steve could have beaten David in a fight, I think David is probably having a little triumphant chuckle to himself as we speak.

Just check what google says about "Pluto is a planet" vs "Pluto is not a planet"

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=%22pluto+is+a+planet%22&word2=%22pluto+is+not+ a+planet%22

Is that the degree to which something grees? Seemed odd, so I conducted some scientific research to back up the claim.

Google fight! Well... that wasn't much of a fight.

Google fight 1

Google fight 2

Since most definitions of god are as nonsensical as the Easter Bunny, it matters little if one is a strong or a weak atheist. Just because the statement "There is no god." is in the form of an assertion, does not mean it has the burden of proof. This is because theer is an implicit assumption in the statement which is not suggestive by the statement itself. Contrast that to "Billy stopped beating his wife." That question has an implicit, *meaningful* assumption which is that Billy had been beating his wife and the actualy assertion is that this has stopped.

Google fight 1

Google fight 2

Since most definitions of god are as nonsensical as the Easter Bunny, it matters little if one is a strong or a weak atheist. Just because the statement "There is no god." is in the form of an assertion, does not mean it has the burden of proof. This is because theer is an implicit assumption in the statement which is not suggestive by the statement itself. Contrast that to "Billy stopped beating his wife." That question has an implicit, *meaningful* assumption which is that Billy had been beating his wife and the actualy assertion is that this has stopped.

The post mentions the "Wisdom of Crowds." Isn't it hard to assume that a crowd will behave consistently wisely?

I wondered about this, so I decided to let "Wisdom of Crowds" and "Mob Rule" fight it out...

You are right. I can't believe how many people confused the name as I did:

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=%22ender+wiggin%22&word2=%22ender+wiggins%22

While their competitors are saying "do no evil", Yahoo seems to be handing dissidents over to the authorities without hesitation.

Uhh.. Not to nit-pick... ok, yes, to nit-pick (sorry!), I think Yahoo's competitors are saying "Don't be evil" not "Do no evil".

You're not the only one making this mistake.

Yes, you're right!

1) Humphrey Davy, the discoverer of the element, named it aluminum.

That was his second choice, after alumium.

2) Charles Hall, the discoverer of the first large-scale economic process for producing the element, also called it aluminum.

How is that relevant?

3) http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1= aluminum&word2=aluminium
Case closed. Guess the "rest of the world" isn't quite as large as you'd like to think.

Uh... what? How do Google counts prove anything? They don't even reliably reveal which spelling predominates on websites indexed by Google, since Google's "estimated counts" are notoriously unreliable, one reason why serious linguists long ago gave up trying to use Google's index as a corpus for investigating the English language.

But I guess it's easier for you to sit back in your parochial ignorance and wank over the Stars and Stripes than it is for you to acknowledge that there's a world out here...

P.S. do you also say "molybdenium" and "tantalium"? Didn't think so.

P.S. do you also say "sodum", "potassum", and "magnesum"? Didn't think so.

1) Humphrey Davy, the discoverer of the element, named it aluminum.

2) Charles Hall, the discoverer of the first large-scale economic process for producing the element, also called it aluminum.

3) http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1= aluminum&word2=aluminium

Case closed. Guess the "rest of the world" isn't quite as large as you'd like to think.

P.S. do you also say "molybdenium" and "tantalium"? Didn't think so.

sorry to be anal, but its advertise and advertising, not 'advertize' or any variant. google offers support to my suggestion: http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=advertising&word2=advertizing and
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=advertise&word2=advertize

sorry to be anal, but its advertise and advertising, not 'advertize' or any variant. google offers support to my suggestion: http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=advertising&word2=advertizing and
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=advertise&word2=advertize

Do I hear a Googlefight in the making? Why yes, it's Norvig vs. Berners-Lee.

Also, desipte your using Google as a source of reference Google itself clearly disputes your own findings.

Now to see who's the bigger and badder moon! Found one, fight!

GoogleFight. Question answered.

the funny thing is that when 'government' is properly spelled, the 'US Government' destroys 'rest of the world.' check it out

Dear US Goverment, Good luck with that, but we're fine right now. Yours sincerely, The Rest of the World (PS, we'd kick your ass. Googlefight confirms it!)

Porn Strikes Back!

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=pornographers&word2=pirates

Not even a contest.

As an aside: I thought pornographers embraced piracy for viral marketing and uploaded the "pirated" content themselves? "Hey, this DivX is crap. I want to see Jenna's boobs in high resolution! Where can I buy the DVD?"

ipod:431,000,000

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=beer&word2=ipod

How can you have an article like this and not link Google Fight with iPod vs Beer? iPod wins 431,000,000 to 153,000,000!

The net agrees: "fulfil" is a very obscure alternate spelling of "fulfill".

What's this about learning to spell?

When you have no data to back your claims, just ask google. Or in this case, googlefight:

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=Driving+Game&word2=Shooting+Game
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=Shooting+Death&word2=Driving+Death

Clearly, the increased number of driving games has caused an increased number of driving deaths. Ban Grand Turismo Now!!

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When you have no data to back your claims, just ask google. Or in this case, googlefight:

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=Driving+Game&word2=Shooting+Game
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=Shooting+Death&word2=Driving+Death

Clearly, the increased number of driving games has caused an increased number of driving deaths. Ban Grand Turismo Now!!

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Thankfully, you're right. God B wins.

How dare you! Clearly our President is the man to lead us to salvation. Just look at the statistics. http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=george+bush&word2=burning+bush

Yes, but what does Googlefight think of all this?

According to one notable handicapping service, the RIAA would win, but just barely. On the other hand, you can see that Free Software kicks the BSA's ass, which suggests a possible alternative. :)

According to one notable handicapping service, the RIAA would win, but just barely. On the other hand, you can see that Free Software kicks the BSA's ass, which suggests a possible alternative. :)

What about?

DMCA wins.

I learned a new word today, perjorative, it means belittling. As far as rank goes.. i'm not a big enough of an asshole yet to be a major. On the topic of rank though, a good clue would have been "I'm the guy on the ground with a gun.". Actually.. now that i'm thinking about it - the perjorative that is. Hodgi isn't a belittling comment. I really thought it ment pilgrim or something like that? Besides, there's yanks, brits, japs, and all that. I did a googlefight between yank and hodgi, yank won by a ton. They always called me am-ree-kee anyways. How you turn "American" into that.. who knows. Geez.. i miss hanging out with those guys. ahh, good times.. good times.

"gay sex" also beats "straight sex" by a landslide.

http://googlefight.com/query.php?lang=en_GB&word1= %5C%22straight%20sex%5C%22&word2=%5C%22gay%20sex%5 C%22

Obviously gay sex is greatly preferred over straight sex.

Here's the fight!

Torvalds vs. Tanenbaum ... fight!

http://googlefight.com/query.php?word1=optomized&w ord2=optimized

Optimized wins by a landslide

And curiously enough, spell check beats out spellcheck by an even wider margin.

http://googlefight.com/query.php?word1=optomized&w ord2=optimized

Optimized wins by a landslide

And curiously enough, spell check beats out spellcheck by an even wider margin.

Yes the threat of terrorism is real, but I'm think we have a lot more to fear from our own government than from terrorists.

You are not alone. :)

It's more interesting if you compare a bunch of search terms.

For example, see how Ubuntu took just a year to become top distro. (And also note how popular Suse is with the Germans compared to everyone else.)

For another upstart, how about Slashdot v. Digg?

I can see this becoming the new Googlefight...

Submitted: Thursday May 11, 2006, @09:38AM
Rejected : Thursday May 11, 2006, @09:42AM

Google has unveiled two new search tools in it's growing inventory of products. Today Google released Google Trends and Google Coop. More information is available at their respective faq pages. While Google Trends seems like a variation of Google Zeitgeist, Google Coop seems like an effort to actively incorporate user feedback into their search engine. No word about this in the Google Blog yet.