Through our initial research for the project, one of the common themes we noticed is the number of concerns involving the drone’s impact on personal privacy. Whether if it’s a US man, shooting down a neighbour’s drone, or TSA threatening to shoot down drones at nearby airports. To have a holistic understanding, we wanted to investigate drone and privacy-related topics focused by both the western and eastern demographics. We used the major search engines from each demographic, then generated categorized topics that allowed us to understand the differences and similarities. The webpages are first categorized by the type of website it is (e.g. news, blog, academic paper). This brings context to the content. Then we looked at the content displayed on the website and generated keywords from the content.
Main Findings
In the search results, all the articles we found on google, were written in English. All the articles we found on Baidu were written in Mandarin.
Google’s results included mostly articles, news and reports. Whereas Baidu’s search results contain more news, articles, and social media.
-The most talked about keywords in google are laws, regulations, issues and solutions.
-Baidu focused more on issues, aerial surveillance, safety, and laws
Protocol
