Web Mining Cell Phone Companies

Today Nokia announced its Q4 result with 44% profit growth. Based on analyst report, Nokia is number one in worldwide cell phone market share, follows by Samsung, Motorola and Sony Ericsson. Yesterday, Moto announced a disappointed result and losing market share. Now Samsung replaced Moto as the 2nd in market share.

How these companies are doing in terms of Internet marketing. I did some web mining using Yahoo Search, the results are quite consistent of their business reality. On English web sites, Nokia ranks number one in cell phone hits with Samsung following at number 2 position. On Chinese websites, Samsung ranks at number one with Nokia follows at number 2.

It would be interesting to watch how these statistics/rank will change over time.

The point I would like to make is that in this Internet age, a company's web status is highly correlated to its market status.

From Justin, http://www.webmining.ca/