System amp; method of identifying and predicting innovation dissemination

摘要

A system and method for determining and identifying dissemination and potential success of items, services, innovations and the like uses an entropy analysis to ascertain the formation of clusters/kernels of adoptions in a population. The analysis is based on dividing a population into cyber neighborhoods, which can be geographic based and/or logically related through common online interactions and experiences. Extensions of this technique can be used to identify artificial cross-linking between web pages as well, which are sometimes the cause of biased online search engine results.