With the completion of General Elections in India, this special’s site is being retired. Our bots has stopped crawling and we will have the archival data available for some more time. Our thanks to all the users who visited the site and gave us your valuable feedback.
- 25th May 2009. Chennai, India
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About India Votes 2009
India Votes 2009 is an experimental release from Vishwak's
media labs. It shows up graph of Popularity of several of the popular terms associated
with this election season in India. For example, it can give a comparative representation
of the most popular party vs other parties currently. The position keeps changing
depending on the stories published online by various news sites. The objective is
to provide a visual representation of how popular a particular party / leader is
currently from the media coverage perspective. Please feel free to reference to
this page or use the graph in your works.
Technical Details: Vishwak "Bot" crawls news from various online news sites
around the country using their public RSS feeds as entry points. The Bot visits
several online news sites around the country, selects articles that are related
to current Elections in India (filters the stories based on our proprietary selection).
The list of RSS sites crawled & the way content from full stories are analyzed are
tweaked on a daily basis to improve the algorithm used by Vishwak Bot. We never
visit a website more than once in 60 minutes timeframe. The keywords are defined
manually based on the day to day hot topics in country.
Disclaimer: The results and charts shown above in IndiaVotes2009 are purely
experimental evaluation arrived by Vishwak Bot based on the stories that it has
crawled and indexed. Vishwak doesn't necessarily endorse any of these results or
observations. The results are shared purely as a knowledge sharing initiative to
validate and extend the technical capabilities of Vishwak Bot.
About Vishwak: Vishwak is a leader in building media portal solutions and
delivering them to desktops and mobile phones. With offices in Chennai (India),
Redmond (Washington, USA) and London (UK) we practice a complete Portal Life Cycle
approach that covers all your needs – concept, architect, develop, test, release
and provide maintenance.