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Tech-savvy girls and boys, of both the naughty and nice variety, had two main ways to track Santa Claus online as he began his epic journey across the globe Christmas Eve. But perhaps they shouldn’t look too closely as the two Santa trackers — sponsored by arch-rivals Microsoft and Google — offered strikingly different data points on the progress of Saint Nick.

By mid-afternoon in the Washington area, the Microsoft-sponsored NORAD’s Santa Tracker Web site had Rudolph and his reindeer friends pulling the sleigh over Romania. The Google-sponsored Santa Dashboard, meanwhile, had them over Madagascar.

The variations were even more mysterious when it came to Christmas gift distribution. The Microsoft-sponsored NORAD tracker had the number at 2.8 billion, putting Santa on pace for what could be a record output even by the standards of his legendary largess. The Google-sponsored tracker, however, had a number far lower, in the vicinity of 770 million — an output suggesting that Saint Nick was still in a recessionary mood and may be teetering close to his own “fiscal cliff,” with a frightening crevasse of austerity looming below.

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What are all your thoughts on this?

...so this is what modern journalism looks like? Oh god why.
The fact itself is interesting but... Goddamn, couldn't they find something more useless to report about?