Google Fight

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  Jacques Distler | July 20th, 2004 @ 5:47 pm

  Of course, a Google search for MovableType (no space) yields 2,430,000 results. Add “Movable Type” and “MovableType” together, and you have nearly twice the number of hits as “WordPress”.

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  Matt | July 20th, 2004 @ 5:55 pm

  If you do that then you should include “Word Press” which people type a lot. However the results are still strange because Google seems to be reporting different numbers.

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  Mike Steinbaugh | July 20th, 2004 @ 6:16 pm

  A lot of people type “Moveable Type” or “MoveableType” as well too.

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  Steven Canfield | July 20th, 2004 @ 6:16 pm

  You can’t forget that ‘movable type’ is a thing, a concept or whatever. Not all of those references point to MT.

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  Sushubh | July 20th, 2004 @ 7:30 pm

  Why not simply consider what is present on the template of a default installation?

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  Sushubh | July 20th, 2004 @ 10:29 pm

  whoops. either google danced or mt suddenly got a lot more popular!

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  Jacques Distler | July 21st, 2004 @ 12:04 am

  To avoid possible confusion with other term, I’d suggest restricting to the canonical spellings, “movabletype” and “wordpress” (both without spaces). I’m impressed that the results are as close as they are (2,470,000 versus 1,490,000). But WordPress still has a ways to go…

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  Matt | July 21st, 2004 @ 12:14 am

  I expect both to be above ten million by this time next year.

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  Zach | July 21st, 2004 @ 6:23 pm

  That’s crap. Well, no, actually it’s not, but wordpress is definetly a superior system. It’ll surpass Movable Type soon enough.

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  DarkCryst | July 22nd, 2004 @ 11:10 am

  WP vs MT is fairer in a way, as most people use the short form of MovableType and quite a few use WP for WordPress.

  http://www.googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare.pl?q1=WP&q2=MT&B1=Make%20a%20fight%21&compare=1&langue=us

  MT wins, but.. well, who is surprised really?

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