Comments on: InfluenceRank: Google’s Social Media PageRank

By: joseph sorbara

joseph sorbara — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:10:31 +0000

I see no one seems to mind that G plans to make even more money with there users “private” data…,

By: Jeremiah Reagan

Jeremiah Reagan — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:07:54 +0000

Hey there Jordan. Very well written article and very informative… Thanks for the link to the Google businessweek article (very informative as well). I have a question though… Many people keep talking about Google’s new PR system and the alterations there making, and I hear many people talking about Bing’s growing success… What role do you think the new “Google +1 Ranking System” will play in determining websites PR and of course there overall “success.”

Thanks for the advice Jordan!

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Jeremiah
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By: Cool Gifts

Cool Gifts — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:11:17 +0000

Very interesting. It seems like if anyone could do this well, it would be Google. I can’t wait to see where this goes.

By: CJ

CJ — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:14:27 +0000

Nice article.

Google has been exploring sentiment for quite a while actually, you can see evidence of papers written by the G guys. Sentiment analysis is not a new area of research. Check out Peter Turney’s work or Bo Pang and Lillian Lee (early 2000).

Also ranking in social networks isn’t new either. An interesting recent project is the Tunkrank project.

I wrote a post on sentiment analysis, seo and search a while back which you might find useful:

Excuse the rubbish formatting (migration from blogspot):
http://www.scienceforseo.com/opinion-mining/sentiment-analysis-in-text/

By: Pat Strader

Pat Strader — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:02:59 +0000

Since reading Bill Slawski’s post about Google incorporating social I have been struggling with how to explain this concept.

Your succinct explanation is appreciated.

By: Tyson

Tyson — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:13:53 +0000

I sphunn this after reading the first sentence.

By: Doug Kreitzberg

Doug Kreitzberg — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:15:04 +0000

Good post. Of particular interest is ranking by the quality of the interactions. In the light, you are really ranking the strength of a community. Tie that in to the community’s interests and you would have a powerful ad tool.

By: SLight

SLight — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:46:18 +0000

Can’t help but think Googles going to be using this to offer some kind of brand management / assessment tool. Ie, find out how many mentions your brand / product / promotion gets. Are they good mentions / bad mentions. What words are related to your product, what sites are, what demographic. The possibilities are pretty much endless with this kind of data. Many agencies already offer this kind of service, I think Google is just getting in on the act with this.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:42:11 +0000

Jordan –

Interesting post. It’s likely that InfluenceRank will look into who you are connected to and how messages travel through those hubs. The idea of social karma having value is also very powerful.