Bill Gates more famous than Steve Jobs?

The pop culture site Radar is a great way to kill an hour online. Among features such as "Commies and Russkies and Arabs, Oh My! Tracking 'the enemy' in Hollywood" and "The Daily Video: The Gratuitous Profanity Song," you will find the oh-so-important Fame-o-Meter. The Fame-o-Meter is Radar's "real-time buzz index." It determines a person's fame by measuring how many times the person's name appears online.

In the "i" world (where "i" stands for, take your pick: IT, Internet, information technology, iPhone), rich boys Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are battling it out for top honors. Jobs was beating at Gates at 3:42 p.m. ET on Monday but by 5:52, Gates had pulled out in front. As of the time of this post, in the past 7 days, online references to Gates have totaled 496 million and references to Jobs trail a little at 397 million. In the past 30 days, despite iPhone mania, Gates tallied 1.95 billion references online with Jobs coming in at 1.56 billion. But Jobs popularity is surging and Radar seems to think that Jobs will usurp the Gates for the No. 1 spot, and soon.

(This post shouldn't help or hurt either one as each name is mentioned exactly seven times.)

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