Googlefight and Twitter Tussle

Are you always getting in to fights about which word is more popular? Then there are a couple of websites for you!

The first is Googlefight, where you put in two words and stick people have a short fight, before one is announced the winner. A graph then appears showing how many hits each word has. You can do this with any set of words – listen and learn for example (learn wins!). The site is also offered in French and Romanian. So if you’re learning either of those two languages and are wondering which word is more popular, then try Googlefight. Amusing and educational!

Another site that’s similar is Twitter Tussle. Instead of stick people, Twitter Tussle has two birds tussling it out to show which word has the most TPM (tweets per minute). Listen is the winner here! As Twitter is used in many different languages, it is more wide-ranging than Googlefight – I put in “hablo” and “espanol” for example.

Although I can’t see too much benefit of these sites in terms of language learning, they are certainly an amusing distraction!