Comments on: Barack Obama Picks Joe Biden–the Worst Google Reputation of All VP Choices

By: Peter Monroe

Peter Monroe — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:17:47 +0000

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By: Peter Monroe

Peter Monroe — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:51:40 +0000

Interesting. But it doesn't mean much. I missed why this is significant. Peter Monroe's last blog post..Peter Monroe

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:28:15 +0000

I agree that Joe Biden is a strange choice for Barack Obama as I read many negative opinion about Joe Biden.

By: franki

franki — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:14:29 +0000

Obama definitely needs to teach

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:33:33 +0000

So can I

By: Jaan Kanellis

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:08:06 +0000

McCain/Paul? I can only wish. Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Search Marketing Standard Acquired by iNET Interactive

By: Fifty Studio

Fifty Studio — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:31:41 +0000

Maybe I'm being critical, but I don't find any relevance to studies that say someone has ZERO negative anything about them whether the negative stuff is true or not. The Ron Paul phenomena really means nothing more than that he has an online audience. Does that audience vote? Signs point to no. Fifty Studio's last blog post..Twitter Spam Block List

By: Nicole Price

Nicole Price — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:41:58 +0000

The opposites attract! Great team is likely to come out of this then!! Nicole Price's last blog post..The Most Expensive?.

By: Goran Web Design

Goran Web Design — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:11:47 +0000

Well with so many years active in politics, Joe Bidin is bound to have more negativity reflecting on him, as he has accumulated a lot on his record throughout the years. So I wouldn’t really judge him on that, it just shows that he has been in the game for quite a long time, and being still active regardless should speak volumes of the man. Politics, politics… I hate em.

By: Utah SEO Pro

Utah SEO Pro — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:45:32 +0000

Obama definitely needs to teach him a thing or two about ORM. Utah SEO Pro's last blog post..Building an SEO Friendly Site - SES San Jose 2008 Presentation

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:38:06 +0000

@RSS Ray – thanks for adding your opinion. I’m not making any political statements, merely noting an interesting observation and updating a previous reputation management series.

By: Kevin Norman

Kevin Norman — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:10:47 +0000

I found this post very interesting because the internet has proven to be an important resource for where people find info on who they'll vote for. Kevin Norman's last blog post..It’s true - email is taking over your life

By: RSS Ray

RSS Ray — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:44:00 +0000

You’ve got to be kidding us with this post, right?

Normally your stuff is much more informative and not politically slanted. Now I’m not sure who I am going to vote for but I do realize Biden has a much longer career than most any other Democratic candidate at the time you mention and was involved in much more than most. Common sense would dictate that a 35 year career in the Senate would produce tons of content indexed by Google, some of which is bound to be negative. No surprise about your McCain/Obama February 2007 results…McCain’s reputation of being a maverick and Obama’s lack of Senate experience were bound to create the result you reached.

There are also variances in the relative strengths of the online marketing efforts for the respective candidates that could be a factor as well.

You’re normally right on in your postings but I’m not sure this one brings your readers any true value.

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:09:16 +0000

@Brian – some valid questions. This is really just one metric to measure. That said, it did correctly predict Obama and McCain as the front-runners.

By: Brian Carter

Brian Carter — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:16:07 +0000

Your comments are researching are interesting- I wonder if negative sentiment, though, is directly or inversely proportional to electability?

It’s probably apples and oranges to compare party nomination and party selection with success in the general election, and I don’t know if your reputation research can go back in time or not, but it would be interesting to see how this shook out in past general elections…

I suspect any good candidate in this partisan environment would have a serious amount of negative sentiment. I’m not sure how it’s possible Obama has none- there are certainly conservatives saying negative things about him-

Also can I question your methodology? What if Obama just has better SEO people working for him? Wouldn’t he have more positive top 20 results? That’s not a clear indicator that there’s no negative sentiment against him.

I guess this raises a lot of questions about how many social media sources you need to use to get a complete picture of the sentiment for a candidate, as well as how looking at only online sentiment skews the results when so much of the country is not quite so tech-savvy.