Savvy net denizens have been staging search engine battles from the earliest days of the
searchable web. Here's a new twist on the old process of entering two search terms to see which comes back
with more hits. The number of results returned serves as a rough proxy for the popularity of that term and can be used
to settle all manner of bets.
Googlefight takes the old concept and freshens it up with some Xiao Xiao-esque flash animations. Here's how the next-generation consoles stack up against each other (in alphabetical order).
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Microsoft Xbox 360: about 40,100,000 results
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Nintendo Revolution: about 7,360,000 results*
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PlayStation 3: about 28,400,000 results
* We had to stick "Nintendo" at the beginning of "Revolution" because we got too many non-gaming search results without the Nintendo name in the search term.
From these results, one could argue that Microsoft's Xbox 360 is winning the hype war. For now, anyway. Just remember the first rule of Googlefight. We don't talk about Googlefight.
