I agree. I saw it. No one can replace Bill Cullen!

Google says otherwise! :)

http://www.googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare...n%22&q2=%22ken+
jennings%22&B1=Make+a+fight%21&compare=1&langue=us

Number of results on Google for the keywords "bill cullen" and "ken jennings":

"bill cullen"
( 11 900 results)

versus

"ken jennings"
( 60 500 results)

The winner is: "ken jennings"


And, just for good measure...

http://www.googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare...k%22&q2=%22ken+
jennings%22&B1=Make+a+fight%21&compare=1&langue=us

Number of results on Google for the keywords "alex trebek" and "ken jennings":

"alex trebek"
( 19 000 results)

versus

"ken jennings"
( 60 500 results)

The winner is: "ken jennings"

Al Gore didn't invent the internet until Bill had been established. If Google had been around in 1956, Bill would have creamed Ken (since I don't think Ken was born yet).

I can just see Google in 1956....."We're the first search engine in color"...

Bill would probably lose in a contest between him and Britney Spears also. Likewise, Dan Rather would probably get more hits than Walter Cronkite. Using Google search numbers is an unfair comparison.

Well, it's not unfair to compare Alex to Ken, is it? And, the fact that Ken easily beats Alex ought to tell you that Ken would beat Bill even if he was "in his prime" now.

How many of those references are actually about the J! champ? You can bet all the "Trebek" references are about Alex.

It's amazing how a couple of months completely overwrites four decades.

Brandon Brooks

Well, I didn't count, but I'd guess that 99% of them are about the Jeopardy! champ. Is there another Ken Jennings that I don't know about?

Your logic is Karlbergian in it's utter inanity.

Several, as a matter of fact. And while a great many of the Google searches are probably for the Jeopardy champ, I'm sure it's nowhere near 99%. It may even be less than 50%.

For example, if your search term goes from "ken jennings" to "ken Jennings" + jeopardy, the hits go from 57,600 to 24,400. And I doubt that there are too many references to THAT Ken Jennings that don't also mention Jeopardy.

As a matter of fact, if you do "ken jennings" MINUS jeopardy, you immediately find a successful stage actor by that name, who's probably responsible for thousands of those hits alone.

Let me guess, you have a Bill Cullen poster hanging in your room, don't you?

Which isn't the point at all. His point is that Bill Cullen died in 1990...before the internet was commonplace. This is 2004....when it is commonplace...and Ken Jennings is all the rage. You were comparing Granny Smiths to Navels.

Well, that's a bit biased, don't you think? "Bill Cullen"+host brings him down to 2,460. I doubt there are too many Bill Cullen references that don't mention the word "host."

I think it would be MORE fair then BC vs. KJ, but still not completely fair considering Alex's career predated wide-spread internet use as well. (Using the "No Internet in 1956" logic previously stated by Jimmy Owen.)

<sigh>

Careful about which arguments you're making. YOU said that 99% of the "ken jennings" Google hits were about the Jeopardy player. I used several examples to show you how incredibly wrong you were. There are tens of thousands of hits that appear to have nothing to do with the Jeopardy champ, and specifically relate to other people named Ken Jennings.

I wasn't making any argument about your comparison with Bill Cullen, which I frankly find pointless and more or less accurate at the same time. I happen to know that there are many other Bill Cullens who have a presence on the internet.

Finally, if you Google "Bill Cullen" MINUS host, seven of the ten links on the first page are still about the game show host Bill Cullen. If you Google "Ken Jennings" MINUS jeopardy, none of the hits on the first page (and only one of the first twenty) are about the champ. So that was a pretty lousy example on your part.

Yes, but Trebek is very much alive and quite popular, isn't he? And, he and Cullen are comparable, aren't they? Since Jennings > Trebek, than isn't it safe to say that Jennings would have more hits than Cullen even if he were alive and in his prime?

Anyway, I don't think being dead means much Google-wise. Babe Ruth has been dead for a very long time, And he still has more hits than Barry Bonds.

Not at all.
Read up about 3 posts.

Well, all that means is that Ken Jennings is attached to the word "Jeopardy" more then Bill Cullen is attached to the word "host."

Yes, I was wrong about 99%. But, fact is, ("Ken Jennings"+ Jeopardy) blows ("Bill Cullen" + host) out of the water on Google. Does he deserve to (not that it matters much anyway)? Who knows. It's just a matter of opinion.

I think you'd better see my post about Barry Bonds and Babe Ruth.

I think you'd better have an inkling of a clue as to what your posting, as two baseball players, versus two game show hosts are two completely different mediums.

He also has more hits on Google than Ken Jennings...

Yep, you and Karlberg should talk.

Your argument has so many holes in it isn't funny. Just give it up.

Brandon Brooks

What do you have against the man, anyways? It's not his fault that he is smart or that he is good at the game. I blame the other contestants more than anyone else. Mr. Ottinger proved that Mr. Jennings is not an insurmountable force, so they really have no excuse for getting blown out other than their own incompetence.

I think that Mr. Jennings could adorn a game show website if people are still talking about him 25-30 years later, as with Bill Cullen.

Oy vey.

It's a perfectly good comparison. It doesn't matter that baseball and game shows are completely different things. I'm still comparing dead guy to living guy and dead guy to living guy (to show that being dead isn't necessarily a disadvantage Google-wise).

You're smarter than you look. I have no idea what you look like, but you're smarter.

We didn't set this board up for people NOT to discuss things. I am openly not a Ken fan, and it's only logical for me to use this as grist for our little discussion mill. As pointed out elsewhere, this subject is so topical that the N.Y. Times is doing stories about Ken; it is likewise logical that there would be a lot of message traffic about him on a game show discussion board.

As for insulting Ken, I apologize if he feels insulted by anything I have written, but I would ask JenKennings to name one actor of any standing who has never received an unfavorable review (if Ken shows up at the Game Show Congreff with a switchblade, I'm in deep doo-doo).

As for putting on pants, after I command my pants to stand up by themselves, I levitate and float into them. The staff is busy warming up the limo.