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Great idea but doesn't work very well. Samsung Galaxy S3:

-I connect to my wifi using a really good asus router. Sentiment 9.0

-I often lose connection in locations where previously I had excellent reception. Sentiment 8.0

-it worked great until july this year when it stopped receiving a network signal. Sentiment 7.5

-the samsung exclusive touchwhiz apps were gimmicky at best. Sentiment 9.0

Etc. If it's unbiased I'd guess the errors would average out, though.

Hi, thanks for your comment. The sentiment analysis algorithms are being constantly fine tuned using new data sets. There are some inaccuracies but as the results are averaged out using large quantities of text, the inaccuracies do not influence the overall sentiment significantly.

SentimentSearch.com is a search engine that crawls the Internet for people's opinions and reviews on a diverse range of topics. The content is aggregated and filtered to provide a 'smarter' view of the information available.

We have been working on this idea for a few months now and would appreciate any feedback. Thanks!

Great idea. Have you guys considered adding an overall rating for the sentiment in question. For instance, searching for iphone5s will return the total Positive, Neutral and Negative sentiments.

And what sources do you crawl so far?

Thanks. We have an average rating for the subject in question above the graph. There is also a list of sources crawled below the graph (we are working on expanding this list significantly in the near future).

Like the idea. Request for the developer, have you considered implementing 'Vs.' comparisons.

For your search I liked what I saw for the Xbox One and PS4 but any possibility of matching them and presenting them side by side?

Thanks for your comment. Comparisons are next on our to-do list. So you should see this feature online within the next few weeks.

I keep getting "no results found" =(

Hi, at the moment the search terms are limited to the auto-complete suggestions and the terms listed on the home page. We are working hard to make this a powerful search engine.

Nice idea. Does your comparisons take into account feedback from users ?

Thanks.

When you say 'feedback from users', are you referring to how we crawl the content or do you mean feedback from users on our site?

Interesting idea, how would the framework scale to say ~1 million items?

Hi, we are currently in the process of building an enterprise-scale crawler. However, for the purpose of this beta test, we simply chose a few pages to index to validate the effectiveness of our idea.

cool idea. Maybe do something clever with the collected data in terms of visualization.

Thanks. Will definitely take your idea into consideration.

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