Monday, December 9, 2013

Google OSINT Searching Discovery: Reading Level

OSI or OSINT:  Open Source Intelligence

Google is my OSINT tool I discovered something that makes Google a better tool for disicovery.  It is at this point interesting but not a precise and valuable as potentially possible.

Note the following uses Google Plus.

This link is a "Bitcoin" Google search.

At that link select Search Tools and then from the drop down menu select Reading Level and you get this link Google search results.  It shows degree of difficulty.  Select Advanced and you will be looking at some high powered stuff.

Obvious there is a degree of difficulty algorithm that categorizes sites.  Perhaps google should have a "For Dummies" level.  It would be interesting to search on a variety of terms an examine results and distributions.  This search link shows results for Obamacare with comparable results.  Select the Advanced (2%) level and the results are shown at this link.  Going one step farther:  If google results were analyzed by a word term parsing program to evaluate something as basic as positive and negative terms what we we find for each category of  Basic (29%) Intermediate (69%) and Advanced (2%). ????

All about the same?  I sincerely doubt it.  If not then why?  Just because Advanced reading level uses bigger words or a higher accuracy analytical level?

This is a wonderful time to be in the field of Natural Language Processing.  Google that term and this is the link that shows results.  3% basic and about 50/50 for Intermediate and Advanced.

I find the difficulty filter to give me more precisely what I am looking for if I am familiar with the basics of whatever I am looking for.

I have a theory that as the degree of difficulty increase the degree of propaganda BS decreases.

Google search on the popular F word returns a Basic reading level of 80% for all hits.

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