The World's Most Powerful is going to feature Gates vs. Jobs. I don't get to watch it since I'm in the states. What do you guys think about who will be voted most powerful?

As much as a mac fan as I am, I really don't see how Gates couldn't be considered the winner.

- trs

Edit: Jeez - I guess the show actually finished airing while I was posting, because they list Gates as the winner. That link was different when I started writing the post. Timezones, heh.

Googlefight concurs with BBC's conclusion.

At least you typed in the correct strings into GoogleFight. All the others are mostly BS because they're either not typed with "quotes" or are typed incorrectly to produce skewed results (like "Mac Donalds" vs "Burger King" - and without quotes)

Bill Gates is more powerful in terms of finances and IT, but don't underestimate Jobs. He's got his hands in a lot of cookie jars and knows a lot of people. He's also not exactly a pauper himself. He'd win for my vote on the most maniacal, that's for sure.

Bruno

Wasn't there a Gates/Jobs Celebrity Death Match episode? If not, there should have been.

-Zeke

edit: There was Bill Gates vs. Michael Flatley, originally aired: 8/6/1998. Too bad.

I heard that mp3 finally beat sex, but it looks like it's not even close.

Wow, I've never seen this site! That's a very cool idea.

For my fight, I was suprised at the results.

Considering they're still trying to get the Phatbox sold and people are actually buying into it, I was suprised to see that the empeg completely trounced it.

*edit*
And I know it's cultural thing, but if they're going for really good fights for the hall of fame, I would think they would choose the most common of each word. For example, "mum vs dad" shows "dad" as the winner. But "mom vs dad" shows that mom appears nearly 5 times more often.