WeekendRead: “What Does The Internet Think”
So I stumbled across this site called What Does The Internet Think, a search engine where your term is broken down into positive, negative, and in-differnet opinion across the internet. Here is how the site says it works:
Since launching, this has sparked up some discussion as to how it all works. Well, you can understand that I don’t want to disclose too much of the ‘algorithm’ of the site. However: basically it searches based on associative (so far just English) sentences. The given search term is used in these sentences which are then sent off to the various search engines, counting the amount of results returned. (Sentences are double quoted before they are sent off, so as to make sure the search-engines search for occurrences of the *whole* sentence).
This, of course, produces questionable results which should not be taken very seriously. However, the more results (hits) returned, the more reliable these results can become. Do a search for George Bush and then Barack Obama, and you’ll see that the internet is certainly not far off – or perhaps even in-sync – with the result you had in mind.
My advice would be to do 10 ‘obvious’ searches, of which you are almost certain of the results, based on your perception of general opinion (e.g. ‘beer’, ‘sex’, ‘sleeping’, etc.) and then do 10 less obvious searches. If the first 10 convince you of even the slightest accuracy, the second 10 will perhaps be not as random as you thought.
Of course, this is far from accurate, but I thought I would have a go, searching Nokia, Nokia Lumia, Nokia N9, Symbian & iPhone5. Here are screenshots of the results:
Overall Nokia, and related terms, seem to all be fairly positive, with the highest out of my search terms being Nokia N9, followed by Nokia Lumia, Nokia, Symbian and lastly iPhone 5.
Again, I know this isn’t conclusive in any way, but it is nice to see Nokia being ahead of the iPhone, even if it is solely wishful thinking.
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Did you try searching with just “Lumia”? Nokia has been concentrating quite a bit on that particular brand after all. Also, how about Asha?
neg 35.5% vs 63.3% pos
Type in “girlfriend” and be surprised
nice one michael
if i type windows phone it’s 56.1% positive
if i type windows phone 7 it’s 65.4% negative
if i type wp7 it’s 69.4% negative
type sony ericsson and be surprised
o.O
Wow, impressive for Sony Ericsson.
Jolla doesn’t rate much worse either… Tried all the mobile manufacturers I could think of and the ‘rating’ goes as:
1) Sony Ericsson
2) Jolla
3) Research in Motion
4) ZTE
5) Samsung
Not bad. Sony Ericsson is always on my first choice and first love in Smartphones/mobile. Still a user alongside N8, but always keeping an eye out for Maemo/Meego. I strongly believe whenever Meego/Jolla stands up completely (apps and all other things) consumers will stop looking everywhere else.
And I always wanted Sony Ericsson to pick up MeeGo, same hopping for Sony Mobiles too now.
Huh, I have quite the opposite experience, I swear that rare HTCs I used were far more formidable, stable and usable than all the SEs I had over the time. I guess you had luck with them. Let’s hope Sony will fare better, I must admit that some of the Xperia devices look quite sweet, too bad Android is gimping them the same way WP gimps Nokia.
OTOH, my bad experiences with SE devices turned me into somewhat of a Nokia loyalist, so if it weren’t for them – I wouldn’t be here
I myself won’t put any value whatsoever on these numbers, seeing how low number of hits each and every of them have. Sony Ericsson had around 5k positive hits, Samsung around 24k and Nokia around 12k. That compared to Jolla’s less than 400, RiM’s 133 positive hits and ZTE’s less than 100.
Don’t know whether that’s enough to tell any trends.
Hey, it’s just for fun, anybody who takes those bars seriously should have his head checked. Bing + shady algorithm == anything but relevant trending data.
Just type Symbian Belle and see
Well i see all of us are positively excited about “oxygen”
Try Microsoft,steve ballmer,stephen elop,windows 8,hydrogen,carbon dioxide and see
Searches provided by Bing and last update on July 26, 2012 -_-
Still, Elop is an interesting term to search
The Internet seems more positive about Kim Jong Il, Pol Pot, Osama Bin Laden and even Justin Bieber and Twilight. Uwe Boll almost made it, tho.
Funny that the sales figures are exactly opposite
1. iPhone 5
2. Symbian
3. Lumia
4. N9
What does that tell you? :p
Shit Happens?
depends on the marketing (iPhone & Lumia)
and luck (Symbian/belle & N9)
there are n9 sales figures?
i have never read any. i thought they are top secret.
waiting for anyone to leak it…
The burning platform leaked easily…
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Have you noticed that this searching tool is powered by Microsoft Bing? What a coincidence! Try “Lumia Nokia” instead of “Nokia Lumia”, you may find effect interesting
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