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Originally Posted by afa
That's pretty weak as far as research goes. You can't just run a search on one specific term with one specific spelling and claim that this shows the number of instances. What about, say, the term "Apple haters" without the hyphen? Would that give a different result? And "Apple h8rz"? What about misspellings like "Appel heatrs"?
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I didn't claim that it showed the number of instances. My point was that the two sides are balanced.
The hyphen doesn't change anything, and apparently nobody on mobileread spells haters as h8rz.
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Originally Posted by afa
More importantly, the term itself is not a good search term. The so-called Apple haters don't use the term to apply to themselves, and even the people who call others out as such don't necessarily do so. I, myself, called out someone for displaying similar behavior but used the term "anti-Apple sentiments".
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Using politically correct wording instead of an insult is a good thing, right?
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Originally Posted by afa
Don't get me wrong - I am not insisting on you taking all of those into account and run some sort of in-depth analysis on the matter. That's a waste of time and I'm sure you have better things to do. My point, rather, is that your search doesn't really prove (or disprove) anything.
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I like to exercise my googling skills. And technically the results should how many times a page with those words was found. So if the words are found more than once on a page, it should only come up as one result.
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Originally Posted by afa
I haven't conducted any research myself (and most definitely never will bother) but subjectively, I would say that as far as 'anti-X Company' comments go, Apple and Amazon do seem to be the target of posters' ire more often than anyone else.
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But there is a balance between "anti-X Company" and "pro-X Company".