Not even Santa Claus can avoid getting track down into the tech clash between Google and Microsoft: The two companies have set up separate online systems to track where Santa Claus and his Elves had been on Christmas Eve — but they show him simultaneously at widely separated locations, delivering presents at a dramatically different rate.
On the official “NORAD Tracks Santa” website, powered this year by Microsoft, Santa Claus was in Rome, well past the 3-billion-present mark in his holiday rounds. At the same time, Google’s Santa Tracker showed him buzzing through Agadez in the African country of Niger, not quite up to the 1-billion-present mark.