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December 20, 2007

The Santa SmackDown in Search: You Better Watch Out, You Better Not Cry

The holiday season is chock full of characters, stories and traditions - all of which see their fair share of search activity. In fact, we hear there's a bit of competition among Santa's cast and crew for the top billing in search. To relieve a bit of pressure (December is a stressful time of year for these guys), Santa Claus returned to the frozen stage this month to oversee some one-on-one action in the Search Smackdown. He got out his list and set up some Yuletide matches in the Buzz Arena...and man, will the reindeer fur fly.

Based on this season's search data, we've got the Search odds right here, and a few highlights from their past matches. All we gotta say is, when Jack "The Cannibal" Frost comes nipping at your nose, you better not cry, you better watch out.

Smack Down Red Corner Green Corner And the Buzz Goes To... Odds
Vengeance Rudolph "Red-Nosed" Reindeer Dasher and Dancer et al Vengeance is sweet. The reject reindeer outshined the tag team by way more than a nose, although that was too bad about Grandma getting in the way. 2:1 Rudolph
2:1 Rudolph
Snowblind Jack "The Cannibal" Frost Frosty the Snowman Frosty proved too slippery for the nimble Jack, although he better watch his addiction to that corn-cob pipe. 9:1 Frosty
9:1 Frosty
Extreme Fighting Blister the Heat Miser Snow Miser aka Mr. Icicle Mr. Icicle may have the cooler ragtime routine, but his hotheaded half-brother burns him in Buzz by nine-fold. Now we know the reason behind global warming. 11:1 Heat Miser
11:1 Heat Miser
Buzz Office Rumble "Home Alone" "A Christmas Story" The McAllister kid can lay a mean booby trap, but all the blow torches in the basement can't match a Red Ryder -- plus that underhanded tongue-on-flagpole trick should freeze any loner in his tracks. 6:1 Christmas Story
6:1 Christmas Story
The Unforgiven Grinch Scrooge A face-off for the ages: the cave-dweller with the super-shrunken heart against that squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner. Ah, but that Broadway endorsement clinched the Buzz for the Grinch. 6:1 Grinch
6:1 Grinch
         
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Comments

Surely the real fight that needs deciding about Christmas is "Santa vs Jesus".

Are we going for religion or is Christmas all about commercialism and Santa delivering presents nowadays?

Posted by: coxy | December 21, 2007 07:51 AM

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Posted by: rhinolink | February 3, 2008 05:25 AM

Your search data is interesting, surely there must be more important topics to research.

Posted by: DUI Lawyer | March 6, 2008 07:45 AM

Wierd topic, interesting data.

Posted by: VA loan information | March 7, 2008 12:48 PM

The data appears to be slanted in favor of rudolf.

Posted by: Los Angeles DUI Lawyer | March 8, 2008 01:55 PM

Really an interesting data seems rudolph has an edge over others.

Posted by: Dr. Sandy at Blogging Guides | March 11, 2008 12:50 AM

Your search data is interesting, surely there must be more important topics to research

Posted by: you tube | April 7, 2008 12:08 PM

a very interested data for yahoo..

Posted by: Türkisch Chat | April 18, 2008 11:31 AM

this data is really important. well I will watch the following results.

Posted by: Tierarzt Hamburg | April 19, 2008 12:27 AM

Very interesting for Yahoo and very interesting post and blog

Posted by: VA Refinance | April 25, 2008 06:23 PM

Innovation by Yahoo! is always fun and great.

Posted by: Mark | April 27, 2008 12:45 AM

Data nicely presented on this blog. Interesting indeed.....

Posted by: 4d scans | May 5, 2008 01:57 AM

Good stuff. Thanks and greetings!

Posted by: Yemek Oyunları | May 11, 2008 05:07 PM

this is a nice tools. Thanks.

Posted by: Giysi Giydirme | May 14, 2008 04:25 AM

This is a wonderful tool, thanks for writing it.

Posted by: Auto infos | May 15, 2008 02:08 PM

I think Meta Tags are hidden description fields that help search engines to categorise websites. They are also of reduced importance than a few years ago.

Posted by: Logo Design Guru | May 16, 2008 02:35 AM

Realy, very interesting data.

Posted by: University Florida Club | May 17, 2008 08:06 AM

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