ROAD TO THE OSCARS – RESPONSES TO ONLINE POLLS SIMILAR TO ONLINE SEARCH HABITS

ROAD TO THE OSCARS – RESPONSES TO ONLINE POLLS SIMILAR TO ONLINE SEARCH HABITS

As film critics across the country select their picks for Oscar winners, how does public opinion match up? And how do online search results reflect online poll choices?

Leading people-search engine Spock.com has compiled a list of the most popular nominees gauged by their online searches – for instance, out of the nominated actors for best female lead actress, Ellen Page is far more searched for on the Internet than Cate Blanchett (nearly 87% vs. 3%). Online searching is also reflective of online general opinion to some extent as can be seen from the latest AOL Oscar Nominee Poll: http://movies.aol.com/oscars-academy-awards/who-will-win where Ellen Page and Johnny Depp are popular choices.

Spock is the fastest growing and most popular new search engine in the market today with over 6 million users. Focused specifically for searching people, Spock has indexed over 300 million people worldwide and over 2 billion people related web pages.

Below are the results of who’s most popular according to Spock and who the Oscar (could) go to according to the critics…

PEOPLE’S CHOICE

Best Actor: Johnny Depp

Best Supporting Actor: Tom Wilkinson

Best Actress: Ellen Page

Best Supporting Actress: Ruby Dee

Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

ROGER EBERT’S CHOICE

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis

Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem

Best Actress: Ellen Page

Best Supporting Actress: Ruby Dee

Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen

PETER TRAVERS’ CHOICE

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis

Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem

Best Actress: Julie Christie

Best Supporting Actress: Ruby Dee

KENT JONES’ CHOICE

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis

Best Supporting Actor: Hal Holbrook

Best Actress: Julie Christie

Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett

Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen

About Spock.com

Founded in 2006 by Jay Bhatti and Jaideep Singh, Spock is a search application that organizes information around people to enable discovery and learning.

With the vision of indexing everyone in the world, Spock is adding millions of people to its index everyday through Internet discovery and community contribution. Spock is located in Silicon Valley and funded by Clearstone Venture Partners and Opus Capital. For press inquiries, email sganguly {at} groupsjr(.)com