New trackers: music, wordpress themes, US Presidential Elections

Posted: November 14, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

We added some new pages, which we call ‘trackers’, that monitor (eh.. track) the Facebook ‘likes’ for handpicked websites for those three areas of interest.

Here are the links to these pages:

http://www.99like.com/music.php

http://www.99like.com/wordpress-themes.php

http://www.99like.com/us-presidential-elections-2012.php

 

We will add more trackers in the future.

Tell us if you are interested in specific topics. We can make new trackers on request.

Note that these trackers are a way to circumvent the fact that our search engine, although not too bad, is not perfect: there are always a number of “false positives” in the results, and it’s just cleaner to remove them by actually handpicking those that make sense.

 

Also, our next step is to implement a “what’s hot” chart, which should show the websites (among the 150,000 indexed!) that has the top growth in its ‘Like’ counter.

 

Monitoring Facebook ‘like’ for 150,000 websites

Posted: November 14, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment » 
I realized that I actually never stated exactly what 99like.com does, or at least not in details.
So let's do it here:

99like monitors the number of Facebook 'like' everyday for 150,000 websites.
Additionally we show charts of these 'like' count across time. And we display those for given search terms.

Additional details:
- the 150,000 websites are the top 100,000 websites according to Alexa, plus about
50,000 websites taken from the CrunchBase database. Not all URLs worked because of some
issues either with our script, or with the database information.
- we count the Facebook likes using the total number: Shared + Like + Comment
- we get these counts directly from Facebook using their API

For example, you can check manually the counters using the following URL:

https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=SELECT%20share_count,%20like_count,%20comment_count,%20total_count%20FROM%20link_stat%20WHERE%20url=%22http://www.99like.com%22&access_token=

which responds:

<fql_query_response xmlns="http://api.facebook.com/1.0/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" list="true">
<link_stat>
<share_count>0</share_count>
<like_count>6</like_count>
<comment_count>0</comment_count>
<total_count>6</total_count>
</link_stat>
</fql_query_response>


One could argue that the comment count is not as valuable as the 'Share' and 'Like' count. Our view is that a comment increases awareness, and generally shows that the website has some "buzz".


For any question, let me know.