Sunday, May 06, 2007

Google fight (Paper Boat Challenge #5)

Originally this month's Paper Boat Challenge was meant to be something different but when I entered the "task" in google, I found out that you could find the solution there in less than 5 minutes. That would have been very boring.

So I came up with the new task which was inspired by googlefight.com (you can have a look if you like). We make our own google fight in 10 diciplines which are as follows:
  • title of a book
  • name of a band
  • name of a tv series
  • name of a famous person you admire
  • something you use every day
  • something you like to eat
  • something you like to drink
  • how you call your "loved one" (also hypothetically)
  • one of your vices
  • how you never want to be called
  • place where you spent a great time (please be more precise than a country)

What you have to do is:
  1. Think of an expression which fits in each of those categories (e.g. name of a band - Coldplay). If it is an expression consisting of more than one word, use quotation marks (e.g. "Red Hot Chili Peppers").
  2. Enter it in google.
  3. Write down how many hits you get.
  4. Let me know your results by writing a comment to this post.
You can have more than one entry this time. So don't hesitate to send me already your first trial. I'll count your last entry until next Monday (14th May). The one with the most total hits wins the competition.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great idea again, I'm in! :-)

1st try:

- bible (96.500.000)
- beatles (49.200.000)
- alf (17.000.000)
- steve jobs (37.800.000)
- car (692.000.000)
- steak (31.300.000)
- water (624.000.000)
- honey (64.800.000)
- procrastination (7.420.000) - that's right... I procrastinate!!! ;-)
- ass (133.000.000) - not too creative, but many results
- bed (281.000.000) :-D

that's a grand total of 2.034.020.000 results. (in 11 disciplines)

Not too bad, I hope...


Michael

Christian said...

Yes, you found a mistake again. I wanted to take out either "something you like to drink" or "something you like to eat". Well, now there are 11 disciplines but it doesn't really matter.

Here is MY first trial:

- 1984 (388.000.000)
- toto (49.500.000)
- peanuts (14.400.000)
- "albert einstein" (13.400.000)
- cup (229.000.000)
- chocolate (113.000.000)
- tea (151.000.000)
- love (1.030.000.000) - not creative at all but many hits
- indifference (10.300.000)
- silly (57.400.000)
- London (484.000.000)

Total: 2.540.000.000 (could be worse)

Dana said...

Now then. Here I come. Number one:

- Cell (433.000.000)
- Queen (161.000.000)
- E.R. (950.000.000)
- me (:-)) (2.680.000.000)
- brain (147.000.000)
- dessert (40.000.000)
- wine (176.000.000)
- dear (130.000.000)
- speed (:-)) (409.000.000)
- woman (behind the wheel :-) (275.000.000)
- home (4.660.000.000)

That adds up to a grand total of: 10.061.000.000

Should I try again? :-)

Nadja said...

Okay, this is my first try and I do not have much time, so I will type in just what comes to my mind:

This is the search I did with google.de, because it seems that the hits differ from google to google. I will also do one with .co.uk and .com

google.de
Harry Potter 72.600.000
AHA 32.100.000
Friends 696.000.000
Shakespeare 46.700.000
water 645.000.000
curry 31.700.000
juice 58.000.000 (Cannot do water again, can I?)
dear 141.000.000
noisy 30.4000.000
bitch .... (can please someone do the search for this, because the page is filtered by the school because of strong language!)
london 468.000.000 (sorry Christian, but I am enjoying to be here at the moment!)

TOTAL: 2.221.500.000 plus bitch, please!

Harry Potter 69,400,000
AHA 29,800,000
Friends 606,000,000
Shakespeare 46,500,000
water 592,000,000
curry 31,600,000
juice 58,200,000
dear 126,000,000
noisy 29,600,000
bitch ...
London 375,000,000

Total: 1,964,100,000 plus bitch please.

google.com
Harry Potter 70,500,000
aha 29,700,000
Friends 634,000,000
Shakespeare 45,700,000
Water 590,000,000
Curry 32,200,000
juice 59,200,000
dear 126,000,000
noisy 29,700,000
bitch ....
london 372,000,000
TOTAL: 1,989,000,000 plus bitch, please!

Nadja

Christian said...

bitch is 42.500.000 (I wonder if you'll be in trouble now after having entered "bitch" so many times;-)

BTW: I didn't say it explicitly but I think it's not really fair to copy other people's ideas (even if it's true). Like that the one who checks the entries last will win. And "me" as famous person is at least - let's say: borderline. Maybe you can prove that!;-)

Christian said...

2nd trial
- 1984 398.000.000
- yes 694.000.000
- 24 5.220.000.000
- jesus 152.000.000
- hand 776.000.000
- chocolate 116.000.000
- tea 146.000.000
- love 992.000.000
- books 703.000.000
- girl 339.000.000
- school 677.000.000 (Everybody who works now will agree that it wasn't too bad then.)

Total: 10.213.000.000

Nadja said...

Okay, this is my last try. But I can stick to the things I did before if they were good?

dictionary 181.000.000
Take That 1.100.000.000
friends 634.000.000
Bush 213.000.000 (ironicly of course!)
water 645.000.000
cookie 119.000.000
coffee 202.000.000
baby 638.000.000 (if I were a boy!)
shopping 841.000.000 (on markets like Camden or Portobello Road...)
male 334.000.000
university 599.000.000

Total: 5.506.000.000
Well, better than last time and more than Michael!

Anonymous said...

2nd try.... let's see if i can even get past the results for "24"...

- bible (96.500.000)
- juli (180.000.000)
- susan (134.000.000)
- M (the James Bond lady) (4.040.000.000)
- car (692.000.000)
- steak (31.300.000)
- water (624.000.000)
- honey (64.800.000)
- procrastination (7.420.000) - that's right... I still procrastinate!!! ;-)
- ass (133.000.000)
- home (4.710.000.000)

grand total of 10.713.020.000!

Anonymous said...

And here I go again...

As we all know the answer to life the universe and everything is 42. Google returns 2.070.000.000 results. Since this is the answer to any question, 11 x 2.070.000.000 = 22.770.000.000. Top that! ;-)

Christian said...

@Michael: I'm honestly impressed because you didn't change that much but got a lot more hits. However, to be 100% fair you should find something else for "home" because Dana had that already.

@Nadja: Sorry, not more than Michael. I can't update the blog from the company because it is restricted. That's why the update is so late.

@Michael again: Sometimes I really fear you can read other people's minds. My original idea for this Challenge was about "the answer to life the universe and everything"... Scary!

Anonymous said...

Sorry about the double answer. Didn't notice that. So my 2nd try is officially a "no contest"...


Michael

Christian said...

You give in too quickly. If you had taken "bed" as answer again, you still would have had the most points. So I declare you winner again (also I would have liked to win myself). Congratulations! And please take your time telling me the new topic.

Anonymous said...

I'm not too sure, if this is irony in your last sentence... Judging from your last blog entry about your >boring< life in Siegen and the 2 months it took me last time to decide on a topic - maybe yes! ;-) So I'll see if I can come up with something a little quicker this time.

Michael