Wednesday, June 22, 2005
And the Winner Is...
Googlefight site is a metaphor to see what topic gets more hits than another. While the site uses Google to search for the two terms in the background, a cute little stick figure animation "fight" is presented. One figure defeats the other. Then through the use of an animated bar chart, the two terms appear side by side and rise evenly until one stops and the other continues on. When the two bars are finished rising the actual number of hits are displayed. In a fight between batman and robin, the winner is robin. Batman is a costumed hero while Robin is both a costumed hero and a bird and a first name for people and therefore shows more hits than Batman. If you can't think of two terms to fight each other, you can look at the last 20 fights, fight of the month, funny fights, or "the classics."