Comments on: Oscar predictions using search engine results? Not very accurate!? http://joeduck.com/2007/02/25/oscar-predictions-using-search-engine-results-not-very-accurate/ Have Blog. Will Travel. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:54:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Abhay http://joeduck.com/2007/02/25/oscar-predictions-using-search-engine-results-not-very-accurate/#comment-20647 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:21:51 +0000 http://joeduck.wordpress.com/2007/02/25/oscar-predictions-using-search-engine-results-not-very-accurate/#comment-20647 Arnaud is right. If you don’t really evaluate the results further, it’s just kitschy and amusing for about 10-15 minutes. I used your entry as an counterexample in my recent entry about another similar site.

]]> By: Arnaud Fischer http://joeduck.com/2007/02/25/oscar-predictions-using-search-engine-results-not-very-accurate/#comment-20459 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:53:58 +0000 http://joeduck.wordpress.com/2007/02/25/oscar-predictions-using-search-engine-results-not-very-accurate/#comment-20459 Joe, nice reading your post. I actually had a similar idea, trying to see if social media online could predict the winner. I went the other way, though, looking at online sentiment analysis for each of the Best Pictures … http://searchistheos.blogspot.com/2007/02/internet-buzz-and-oscars.html

there is way to much noise out there to get a good understanding of online buzz without spending more time digging into the comments at a more granular level using or not computational linguistic.

-arnaud

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