US08 Election Monitor

Aug 5th, 2008 | By Silent Observer | Category: Facebook Applications

FAIRFAX, VA - FEBRUARY 02:  U.S. Sen. Barack O...Image by Getty Images via DaylifeThe US Election 2008 Web Monitor provides weekly snapshots of global Web coverage. Lists of keywords summarize the most important issues associated with each candidate, this helps the user to identify which one is the best and is eligible to e the next president of US. This application provides weekly snapshots of global Web coverage.

It captures the Web sites of international media from the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand, environmental organizations, the Fortune 1000 which is the biggest US companies in terms of revenue, as well as 1000 popular blogs on political issues and reflect the results. From these sites, the system processes more than 800,000 documents each week. It collects the data on Monday and publishes the results on Thursday. It keeps updating the current results which help the user to caste their vote for their candidate.

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