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OS X on the OS Sucks-Rules-O-Meter
I found this mentioned over at BoingBoing.The Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter is a chart based on periodic AltaVista searches looking for the name of each OS followed by the terms "sucks" or "rules." So, if AltaVista checks TUAW and sees that I say that Windows XP sucks, there will be one more result on the red side of the line for Windows XP, and when they see that I say that Macintosh OS X rules, there will be one more result on the green side of the line for OS X.Right now, Windows sucks the most (big surprise) and Linux rules the most (although Linux also comes in second place in sucking). Mac is split into Mac OS and Mac OS X with 419:152 and 2448:524 rules to suck ratios for each respectively.
This is cool, but what I would really like to see is a version of this that used Google, Yahoo!, and AltaVista (and whatever other search engines you'd want to shove in there), and averaged these responses out according to market-share. I suspect that OS X would be the clear leader under such circumstances.
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Brian said 4:20PM on 6-16-2005
I don't think that it would be the leader at all. For those who use Mac OS X, they don't need to search "MAC OS X RULES" to know that.
Also, the other thing would be that you can write it MACOSX, Mac OS X, Tiger, and Mac OS 10.4. That's as opposed to writing just "linux" or "windows". We'd certainly have to combine it all.
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Andrew Kaufmann said 4:20PM on 6-16-2005
can we place bets on changes in the meters? I'm taking 100:1 odds on VMS rising to the top.
or should I move this comment to the new poker blog?
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Small Paul said 4:20PM on 6-16-2005
I don't see how adding the other search engines would change the picture much. It's not like they give particularly varied results. It might add another 10-20% of pages (I'm just guessing), but I doubt it'd add enough to skew the results.
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Sk8rCai said 4:20PM on 6-16-2005
Interesting little tit-bit, there!!
Good for those of us who spout about how much Windows Sucks or OS X Rules!
*giggles*
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Tim said 4:20PM on 6-16-2005
Doing a Google search
"os x rules" :: 3780 unique pages
"os x sucks" :: 1120 unique pages
"os x sucks" -"os x sucks less" :: 926 unique pages
We have about a factor of 4 on the Rules-to-Sucks ratio of OS X.
"windows rules" :: 3590 unique pages
"windows sucks" :: 29700 unique pages
"windows sucks" -"windows sucks less" :: 29600 unique pages
Ahh, let the flame wars begin!
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