{"id":416,"date":"2005-03-31T06:26:08","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T11:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=416"},"modified":"2005-04-01T18:41:46","modified_gmt":"2005-04-01T23:41:46","slug":"variable-google-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/variable-google-fights\/","title":{"rendered":"Variable Google Fights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doc.weblogs.com\/2005\/03\/30#roundWun\">Doc writes that he is amazed<\/a> to see Tony Pierce win over Instapundit in a <a href=\"http:\/\/googlefight.com\/\">GoogleFight<\/a>. But Tony and Instapundit have nothing on Paul Jones. We collectively chalk up from 10 million to over 12.2 million GoogleFight points depending on when you search (in fact our score could be higher). As a big winner, I&#8217;m not whining, but a difference of 20% is great. <\/p>\n<p>I just got that difference in two searches back to back. <a href=\"http:\/\/googlefight.com\/index.php?lang=en_GB&#038;word1=paul+jones&#038;word2=ibiblio\">Paul Jones v. ibiblio<\/a> yields 10 million v. 1.5 million. <a href=\"http:\/\/googlefight.com\/index.php?lang=en_GB&#038;word1=paul+jones&#038;word2=george+bush\">Paul Jones v. George Bush<\/a> yields 12.2 million v. 17 million.<br \/>\nNote that ibiblio bests <a href=\"http:\/\/googlefight.com\/index.php?lang=en_GB&#038;word1=ibiblio&#038;word2=doc+searls\">Doc Searls<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/googlefight.com\/index.php?lang=en_GB&#038;word1=ibiblio&#038;word2=instapundit\">Instapundit<\/a> but not <a href=\"http:\/\/googlefight.com\/index.php?lang=en_GB&#038;word1=ibiblio&#038;word2=tony+pierce\">Tony Pierce<\/a>. Interestingly enough, ibiblio scores 1,570,000 when fighting Tony Pierce and 1,640,000 when against Instapundit.<\/p>\n<p>One further note: A regular Google search for Paul Jones yields about 15,200,000 entries (March 31 at 8 am EST) and a search for ibiblio yields about 1,700,000.<\/p>\n<p>No consistancy here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonypierce.com\/blog\/bloggy.htm\">Tony Pierce<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonypierce.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/motley-crue-forum-inglewood-ca-32305.htm\">admits defeat to Paul Jones in GoogleFights even as he praises <\/a>Motley Crue (which explains something about why he loses GoogleFights; Paul Joneses are all better musicians!). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doc writes that he is amazed to see Tony Pierce win over Instapundit in a GoogleFight. But Tony and Instapundit have nothing on Paul Jones. We collectively chalk up from 10 million to over 12.2 million GoogleFight points depending on when you search (in fact our score could be higher). As a big winner, I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}