Wednesday, June 24, 2009

It's good to know negatives too!!!

Yippie..... I got an offer from a company X. I got another offer from company Y.
And now the dilemma begins..... whether to go for company X or company Y.

And the natural tendency is to search for a company's positive points and select the
one with more positives.

Interestingly, if one can come up with an 'Oracle' can list the positives and
especially the negatives of a company?

In simple terms,
'A Spider crawls the web for content about companies, performs sentiment analysis for getting polarity of the sentences for ranking'.
A user gives the name of a company he likes to know about:
Input: company X
Output: the positives and negatives of the company X.

This thought flashed in my mind when I was browsing for details
about a company(from which I got an offer). From few employees I have heard that the company
is closing down and there are few legal issues the company is involved in.

The task is quite challenging.
I am eagerly waiting for a product that focuses on this work.