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At http://www.whatdoestheinternetthink.net you can actually find out what the internet’s global opinion is on a given search term. Is it positive, negative or indifferent? Find out!
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 ‘algorythm’ of the site. However.. basically it searches based on associative (english!) sentences. The given searchterm is used in these sentences which are then sent off to the various searchengines, counting the amount of results returned. (Sentences are double quoted before they are sent off, so as to make sure the search-enginges search for occurances of the *whole* sentence).
This, ofcourse, produces questionable results which - considering the varying results per hour, per engine - should not be taken very seriously. However, the more results 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.
Doubtful? My advice: sum up 10 ‘obvious’ searches, of which you are almost certain of the results (like ‘beer’, ’sex’, ’sleeping’, etc.) and then write down 10 less obvious searches. Then enter these results into the search field. If the first 10 convince you of accurate results, the second 10 will perhaps be not as random as you thought!
Hi, I love the idea behind the website. I’ve been chatting about it with my friends concerning the attitude towards religion on the internet. And I think we may have found a bug.
If you search Barack Obama (I know, nothing to do with religion) you get back over 2.5 milllion results with almost all of them being “Don’t Care” and it saying that no one has an opinion about Barack Obama on Twitter (I find this hard to believe).
But if you search just Obama, it looks like more realistic results (it was like a 60:40 split between positive and negative).
Anyways, I think it is a great idea and a great discussion starter. Just thought I would point out some wonky results. Thanks again!
Some results are good, some are funny, some are just plain ridiculous.
However I think you need to finetune your search algorithm where it concerns one word searches.
Why?
I do think that lawyers from google, yahoo or bing might slap you with a mighty lawsuit when seeing the following results:
Conclusion: The internet is mainly positive on the subject of incest, according to Google.
Conclusion: Even the internet is not quite sure about rape, according to Yahoo.
Conclusion: The internet is mainly positive on the subject of torture, according to Bing.
@2: A lawsuit? Really? You do realise whatdoestheinternethink.net would win that lawsuit, right?
It’s a good introduction to the topic of Social Media monitoring! Nobody’s going to take the data too seriously but it’s certainly a useful free tool.
Many thanks!!