Tool of objective truth

Three years ago now, when the google api came out, I wrote a program I called TOOTD6, based on TOOT: Tool Of Objective Truth, a game that used the google api to determine objective truth, based on the number of times a term (or a phrase) shows up referenced in google.

The world wasn’t ready for TOOTD6, but now I think it has a chance :)

For now it’s Windows only, but as soon as I finish getting Ubuntu properly installed, I promise to compile a version for the linux crowd.

It isn’t open source, sorry, but anyone who wants to know how to build it can write to me.

So you can download the 2005 version of TOOT, called LNDSTOOTD7, here.

An example

The figure shows how we determine which of 3 programming languages is the most popular. The candidates are Java, Ruby and Python: