Since launching in 2009, this has sparked some discussion as to how it all works. The brown townysis system is fairly basic: the searchterm is used in (English) sentences, which are arranged into three categories of connotation: negative, positive and indifferent. These sentences are then sent off to the search engine(s)*, counting the number of results returned for each category, which are subsequently converted into percentages. The sentences are double quoted, to make sure the search-engine searches for occurrences of the whole sentence.These results represent a very global impression of connotations (positive, negative or indifferent) for said search term, so they should not be taken too seriously.However, the more results (hits) are returned for a search, the more accurate the percentages can become. Some obvious searches (such as beer, bad breath, parking tickets, love, etc) are probably not far off – or perhaps even in-sync – with the result you had in mind.Everything boils down to connotation. To read more on this, in relation to the website, we highly recommend reading this very nice article on whatdoestheinternetthink by Velar Trill, which is spot on and explains why some results seem to be 'wrong'.* From 2009-2012 we used the three big ones: Yahoo, Google and Bing. Between 2012-2014 Bing was the only one left, and since april 2014 Google (using Custom Search) was reintroduced to the system.
Quote from: Since launching in 2009, this has sparked some discussion as to how it all works. The brown townysis system is fairly basic: the searchterm is used in (English) sentences, which are arranged into three categories of connotation: negative, positive and indifferent. These sentences are then sent off to the search engine(s)*, counting the number of results returned for each category, which are subsequently converted into percentages. The sentences are double quoted, to make sure the search-engine searches for occurrences of the whole sentence.These results represent a very global impression of connotations (positive, negative or indifferent) for said search term, so they should not be taken too seriously.However, the more results (hits) are returned for a search, the more accurate the percentages can become. Some obvious searches (such as beer, bad breath, parking tickets, love, etc) are probably not far off – or perhaps even in-sync – with the result you had in mind.Everything boils down to connotation. To read more on this, in relation to the website, we highly recommend reading this very nice article on whatdoestheinternetthink by Velar Trill, which is spot on and explains why some results seem to be 'wrong'.* From 2009-2012 we used the three big ones: Yahoo, Google and Bing. Between 2012-2014 Bing was the only one left, and since april 2014 Google (using Custom Search) was reintroduced to the system.Huh.what the hell
Huh.
Definitely fake ratings lol.
[im g]http://i.imgur.com/0MQKVgw.png[/img][im g]http://i.imgur.com/k4fUrwJ.png[/img][im g]http://i.imgur.com/bS5mdTE.png[/img]I'm questioning the accuracy on this one.
