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As an interesting aside, I created a word cloud with the last 1000 Hacker News headlines to cross the 250-point threshold. I found Google was in 49 of those. Ha
by diego 14y ago
As an interesting aside, I created a word cloud with the last 1000 Hacker News headlines to cross the 250-point threshold. I found Google was in 49 of those. Hacker News seems to care more about Google than any other company.
http://images.diegobasch.com/newsyc250.png http://images.diegobasch.com/newsyc250.png
- cft 14y agoInteresting: I could not spot Facebook there easily?
- jamesaguilar 14y agoI found Zuck, but no Facebook.
- ihsw 14y agoYou say that like it's a bad thing.
- mbesto 14y agoCurious - are you using NetBase for this?
- arscan 14y agoVery cool. I'm not sure that google would be thrilled about the words that ended up inside of their letters though... its like a subliminal message.
- mtgx 14y agoGoogle is kind of the Internet company, and HN runs on the Internet, so...
- jusben1369 14y agoI don't trust this as I don't see "Stripe" in a very large font! (sort of only half joking)
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- dredmorbius 14y agoNo Microsoft. No Facebook. No IBM. Very few from this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_technology_companies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_technology_... Do you have the raw ranking data available?
- cooldeal 14y agoPosts that aren't negative about Microsoft are routinely flagged off the front page.
- dredmorbius 14y agoIt's more an observation that HN is highly skewed toward consumer Internet companies. And doesn't focus much on specific companies generally (Google, Apple, Twitter, and Facebook/Zuckerberg excepted).
- scott_s 14y agoHow did you come to that conclusion? That is, how are you able to differentiate a story naturally being bumped off the front page by other stories getting more aggressive upvotes, and a story being buried by many flags?
- cooldeal 14y agoIf a story has 50 votes and was posted 5 hours ago, it should be ranked higher than any story that has less than 50 points and was posted more than 5 hours ago. If not, it shows that the story was flagged. Example: http://i.imgur.com/IlAn2.jpg http://i.imgur.com/IlAn2.jpg Another example: http://i.imgur.com/fSJqq.png http://i.imgur.com/fSJqq.png Also, Paul Thurott's http://winsupersite.com http://winsupersite.com is completely banned from HN, most probably due to excessively being flagged for the crime of being a Microsoft watcher news site.
- scott_s 14y agoI don't think the ranking algorithm is that simple - I think it takes into account recency of votes, although I'm not sure. The first example does not seem suspicious to me, although the second one is surprising to me.
- bduerst 14y agoDid you use a published data set or did you scrape the site?
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- ok_craig 14y agoI don't really think that's true at all. Google just generates the most newsworthy headlines. The same trend can be found on many other sites. I think TechCrunch once posted an analysis of their headlines that showed something like a 3:1 ratio of Google headlines to Apple headlines, and (at least at the time, haven't read them recently) they clearly weren't bigger fans of Google than Apple.
- duaneb 14y agoI think that Google is immensely influential in the current startup community, for being the best example (in the current market) of a successful, profitable startup. Furthermore, I think their corporate environment is often held as, if not a model of, then at least better than 99% of corporate environments. I'm sure some people (Michael Church is popular on HN, I think) would disagree. But the point is, everyone wants to be the next Google. So, color me not surprised.