Web Glues

Team Members

Introduction

Research Question

Method

1. Search for the top 100 results for “oil spill” in Google.
2. Inlinks web: Search for the (number of) inlinks to the top 100 using Yahoo! Site Explorer, click on inlinks.
3. Write down number of inlinks and save .tsv file with first 1000 results (rename .tsv file according to Google result position).
4. Inlinks Twitter: Search for the (number of) Twitter inlinks to the top 100 using Topsy.
5. Write down number of tweets mentioning the website and save page (rename file according to Google result position).
6. Inlinks blogs:
7. Number of Likes on Facebook: http://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/
8. Number of Shares on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/share/ Link to share - custom URL - enter

Findings

Issues and Limitations

Further Research