MIT GoogleBattles

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>GoogleBattles (<a href="http://www.googlebattles.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.googlebattles.com&lt;/a&gt;)
I saw this on another thread where they battled the Ivy's. I thought it would be interesting if I pitted MIT against its CC competitors: Harvard and Caltech. Here are the results:</p>

<p>MIT vs. Harvard
MIT: 591,000,000
Harvard: 35,000,000
WINNER --> MIT</p>

<p>MIT vs. Caltech
MIT: 591,000,000
Caltech: 2,670,000
WINNER --> MIT</p>

<p>For kicks,
MIT vs. college
MIT: 591,000,000<br>
college: 216,000,000
WINNER --> MIT</p>

<p>MIT vs. internet
MIT: 591,000,000<br>
internet: 607,000,000<br>
WINNER --> internet</p>

<p>MIT vs. world
MIT: 591,000,000
world: 587,000,000<br>
WINNER --> MIT</p>

<p>hrm... MIT > the world?
wow I'm so very bored
Disclaimer: this isn't a flame post; just a random bored post...</p>

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<p>Stanford made Google.</p>

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<p>LOL that's so funny</p>

<p>but I think maybe the reason that MIT is getting so many hits is b/c "mit" is a very common german word I believe</p>

<p>and btw rooster, Stanford didn't make google, that's a silly claim</p>

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<p>Why does it say on the Caltech board that they won the battel vs. MIT?</p>

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<p>hmm if you try "Massachusetts Institute of Technology", Harvard wins by an order of magnitude. But Harvard is the name of a company (many companies?) and towns.</p>

<p>Plus, MIT is used mostly instead of the full name...</p>

<p>I don't think there can be a winner here ;/</p>

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<p>If you use "Massachusetts Institute of Technology", wouldn't you have to search for "Harvard College" to be fair?</p>

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<p>Why is a Stanford student lurking here? :)</p>

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<p>...and remember to take into account misspell-abilities of the two full names :D</p>

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<p>"Harvard College" + "Harvard University"> "Massachusetts Institute of Technology"...
haha this is so asinine</p>

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<p>"and btw rooster, Stanford didn't make google, that's a silly claim"</p>

<p>Yes we did. Google was a Stanford reasearch project that Stanford CS students Larry Page and Sergey Brin headed. It first premiered on google.stanford.edu, and Stanford owns many of the Google technology copyrights. </p>

<p>Anyway, I'm bored.</p>

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<p>MIT >>> Stanford</p>

<p>I'm even more bored</p>

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<p>yeah, it's owned independently by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, not by Stanford University.</p>

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<p>Actually President Hennessey is on the Board of Directors and Stanford does own a huge percentage of Google stock along with patents to Google's search technology.</p>

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<p>One way to take care of atleast some errors is to search for only english language pages. Then, the results for "MIT" seem to really be about MIT. The number of hits is about 42,600,000 then. (13,100,000 for "Harvard", 7,370,000 for "Stanford", and 1,470,000 for "Caltech").</p>

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<p>What if Harvard or MIT is mentioned on a spanish website then?</p>

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<p>It doesn't really matter, it should still be about the same ratio whether in English or any other language.</p>

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<p>er. well spanish was a bad example. What if MIT or Harvard are mentioned on a German site?</p>

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<p>come on now! A random guy saying "wow MIT is cool" should have alot less worth than a chemistry journal mentioning MIT. But in the google search, they're all the same!</p>

<p>Use Google Scholar!</p>

<p>[url=<a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Harvard+University%22%5DHarvard%5B/url"&gt;http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Harvard+University%22]Harvard[/url&lt;/a&gt;] 600,000
[url=<a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22Massachusetts+Institute%22%5DMIT%5B/url"&gt;http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22Massachusetts+Institute%22]MIT[/url&lt;/a&gt;] 130,000</p>

<p>ahh defeat....</p>

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<p>Well you did "Harvard University" vs "Massachusetts Institute of Technology"
Why don't you try Harvard vs. MIT on your Google Scholar
Harvard 1,300,000 (<a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=Harvard%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=Harvard&lt;/a&gt;)
MIT 3,050,000 (<a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=MIT%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=MIT&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

<p>ahh victory... [haha all just for fun, no flame posts or anti-Harvardness is coming from me. you know i love you all :) ]</p>