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11-15-2005, 03:38 PM
http://www.googlefight.com

Here's the challenge:
Select two phrases that have the smallest percentage difference between their results (ie the closest possible matchup).

Calculate the percentage difference as follows:
(x-y)
--------- * 100
(x+y)/2

Take the absolute value of the answer.

My record so far is 0.225%. Beat this and post the phrases used.

11-15-2005, 03:50 PM
wtf

drewjustdrew
11-15-2005, 03:52 PM
Tell us what your phrases were

wh1t3bread
11-15-2005, 04:01 PM
Edit: My math sucks. Shame on you for making me do math.

kyro
11-15-2005, 04:03 PM
I dunno about closest, but Paul Phillips totally owned twoplustwo.com

GuyOnTilt
11-15-2005, 04:08 PM
Shouldn't it be relatively easy to get 0%?

GoT

GuyOnTilt
11-15-2005, 04:10 PM
Took me less than a minute:

"tucan sam big smile bird walking in cirlces slowly"

vs

"glow in the dark earmuffs on clearance for the luau, so awesome this native island, woot!"

GoT

fnord_too
11-15-2005, 04:17 PM
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Shouldn't it be relatively easy to get 0%?

GoT

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Smalleset percentage difference.

GuyOnTilt
11-15-2005, 04:21 PM
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Shouldn't it be relatively easy to get 0%?

GoT

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Smalleset percentage difference.

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Right. Like 0% difference.

GoT

asofel
11-15-2005, 04:23 PM
[ QUOTE ]
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Shouldn't it be relatively easy to get 0%?

GoT

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Smalleset percentage difference.

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Right. Like 0% difference.

GoT

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hehe...

11-15-2005, 05:04 PM
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Tell us what your phrases were

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Phrase 1: canada a
Phrase 2: windows

No quotation marks on either.

GoT, you tried way too hard to get 0%. Try "Guy on tilt" vs. "Guy on tilt"

fnord_too
11-15-2005, 05:08 PM
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Shouldn't it be relatively easy to get 0%?

GoT

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Smalleset percentage difference.

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Right. Like 0% difference.

GoT

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Oh, they both returned no hits? Doesn't that result in a division by zero at some point in the formula. (I'm too lazy to open a new widow to see the formula the OP posted).

I guess your sucker bet experience with El Diablo has you shooting all the angles now /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Edit - I just went to the sight, I thought this was looking for the closest results (i.e. most common set of hits), but apparetnly, I was just wrong.

GuyOnTilt
11-15-2005, 05:13 PM
Actually both mine returned 4 hits. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

GoT

11-15-2005, 05:14 PM
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Actually both mine returned 4 hits. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

GoT

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nh.

fnord_too
11-15-2005, 05:19 PM
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Actually both mine returned 4 hits. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

GoT

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nice!

We need to somehow scale this to average number of hits, so that really close for 1M hits is better than perfect for 1 hit.

WTF am I wasting time with this???? meh, e slap me.

11-15-2005, 05:20 PM
0.12 %

party poker application
and
spybot search and destroy

11-15-2005, 05:42 PM
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0.12 %

party poker application
and
spybot search and destroy

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This is actually 0.462%

2170000-2160000 = 10,000

2,170,000+2,160,000 / 2 = 2,165,000

10,000 / 2,165,000 = 0.0046189376443418013856812933025404

WackityWhiz
11-15-2005, 06:04 PM
The results are in...

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/4397/juryisin7jv.jpg

diebitter
11-15-2005, 06:11 PM
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The results are in...

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/4397/juryisin7jv.jpg

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hehehe! I didn't think there was any way on earth I'd laugh at anything in this thread.

Talk2BigSteve
11-15-2005, 06:46 PM
The Real Choice....

http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/8519/bigstevegooglefight1zv.png

Big Steve /images/graemlins/cool.gif

WDC
11-15-2005, 07:15 PM
SIIHP has more than YSSCKY but

"Stick it in her pooper" has tons less than "you should seriuosly consider killing yourself"

BradleyT
11-16-2005, 02:24 AM
closest I got

pr0n vs. 7cs (http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=pr0n+pictures&word2=7+c ard+stud+hi-lo+winning+strategy)

Vavavoom
11-16-2005, 06:40 AM
http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/3300/chud24ae.png (http://imageshack.us)

Reef
11-16-2005, 09:57 AM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/reef/sssssssdafafasfasfasfd.jpg