Inspired by this post on LGF, I went to see what happens when “Buy Danish” and “Boycott Danish” duke it out. So I ordered up a Googlefight.
It’s “Buy Danish” by a landslide.
The Google has spoken.
You can see the cartoons here.
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I think you need to put quotes around the phrases in order to get a meaningful comparison. I tried it and it still came out around 3:1.
Comment by David Foster — 02/10/2006 @ 1:46 pm
Hopefully it’s not all talk… or type I guess in this case.
Comment by Hollywood_Freaks — 02/10/2006 @ 1:51 pm
In fairness I think the people most likely to buy Danish (like myself) are more likely to have PC’s and net connection then those on the other side.
What does Boycott Egypt come up with I wonder since they published the cartoons months ago?
Comment by P. Ingemi — 02/10/2006 @ 2:05 pm
I guess it depends on when and what you put in. I typed in “Buy Danish Goods” and “Boycott Danish Goods.” The result was 130 buy and 10,500 boycott. For “Buy Danish” I got 95,700 and for “Boycott Danish” I got 45,300. Go figure.
Comment by Mike — 02/10/2006 @ 2:24 pm
Now try it in Arabic.
Comment by Red Jode — 02/10/2006 @ 2:27 pm
Considering the Danish government don’t own the newspapers, buy vs boycott is truly meaningless to me…although apparently not to geniuses in other parts of the world…
Comment by The Doctor — 02/10/2006 @ 2:27 pm
There’s also the problem of picking up all the hits where people mean “purchase pastry/ Denmark-based-company.” And that Google may not pick up all the instances of “boycott danish” that are in Arabic and other non-English languages.
But if it makes you happy…
Comment by PG — 02/10/2006 @ 2:48 pm
Skagen wristwatches, Lego toys, Havarti cheese
Comment by It won't help you to know. — 02/10/2006 @ 2:59 pm
Of course, “buy danish” and “buy Danish” are two different things…
Comment by Pete — 02/10/2006 @ 3:02 pm
Hey, that’s right! I had a Skagen wristwatch. It was my favorite. I lost it about a year ago.
Um, most of you do realize that I wasn’t completely serious about the Googlefight, right?
Right. Good.
Comment by Meryl Yourish — 02/10/2006 @ 3:09 pm
I’m wearing a nice Skagen watch I bought earlier this week. Nice stuff!
Next a stop for some Carlsberg beer on the way home from work…
Comment by Robert — 02/10/2006 @ 3:17 pm
I’m buying Danish Havarti twice a week now.
Comment by mark — 02/10/2006 @ 3:54 pm
All I know is that I just placed an order with a Danish store online and I received a confirmation back with a thank you about buying Danish and the fact that the stores volume has increased 20 fold since the ‘Buy Danish’ movement started.
Comment by Mike — 02/10/2006 @ 4:31 pm
I’m sipping a Carlsberg beer as I read this.
Comment by Glenmore — 02/10/2006 @ 4:32 pm
My son personally keeps the Lego company in business, so we’re OK…
Comment by kj — 02/10/2006 @ 5:00 pm
If you put in “boycott denmark” and “support denmark” you get 651 to 38,100.
Slamdunk for freedom.
Comment by catherine — 02/10/2006 @ 5:12 pm
I told my wife to order another place setting of her Royal Copenhagen china (ouch — not cheap).
Comment by Jake — 02/10/2006 @ 5:18 pm
Hirsi Ali ‘The Real Heroine In The Fight Against Islam’
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of the most sharp- tongued critics of political Islam – - and a target of radical fanatics. Her provocative film “Submission” led to the assassination of it’s director Theo van Gogh….On a lighter note I am glad Buy Danish is…
Trackback by All Things Beautiful — 02/10/2006 @ 5:23 pm
I put in Buy Danish goods versus Boycott Danish goods and got:
Buy Danish goods = 4,920,000
Boycott Danish goods = 300,000
Comment by Earl Goudie — 02/10/2006 @ 5:33 pm
Uh, I’m going to go to the bakery tomorrow for some Danishes.
Does that count?
Comment by jblog — 02/10/2006 @ 6:11 pm
I, for one, went out and bought Danish cheeses and a ham a couple of days after the Cartoon War hit the blogosphere. I’ll probably continue to buy Danish goods where I can for the near future. I’d boycott Middle Eastern products but, um, they don’t have any except for oil. And that, unfortunately, is unavoidable.
Comment by RebeccaH — 02/10/2006 @ 7:02 pm
course, googlefights aren’t always what you’d expect…
hetrosexual vs. homosexual – gays win 19.4 million to a pathetic 231K. paint the net pink!
innies get slightly more than outies (well, we /knew/ that had to be the case)
jew overwhelms mullah – proof of the great conspiracy? then again, pork eating jew clobbers pork eating muslim.
so many conspiracies… so little time!
Comment by cowtipper — 02/10/2006 @ 8:23 pm
well any way you slice it I’ve been picking up danish cheese lately and using it as a mixture to make Quesadias and they come out quite good.
As long as our arab friends continue this so shall I.
Comment by P. Ingemi — 02/10/2006 @ 9:21 pm
Sorry, I boycott Danish ham [and all others for that matter] on general principal…
Comment by The Doctor — 02/10/2006 @ 9:34 pm
This is cool, but DO NOT out in “Israeli” and “Palestinian”.
Very disappointing.
Comment by Mark — 02/10/2006 @ 10:27 pm
If you googlefight Islam v. cartoons – it’s cartoons by a mile
Comment by M. Thatcher — 02/11/2006 @ 12:17 am
A very palpable hit
“Buy Danish” clobbers “Boycott Danish” in a Googlefight. Mmmm, danish.
…
Trackback by Sean Gleeson — 02/11/2006 @ 12:19 am
try cartoons versus Islam…
cartoons win.
Hands down, no joke.
Comment by nick — 02/11/2006 @ 1:16 pm
Try cartoons versus christianity.
cartoons win.
no joke.
Comment by Hasan S. — 02/13/2006 @ 7:46 am
That Carlsberg is a darn good brew!
Comment by Mark B — 03/01/2006 @ 10:15 pm