Nathan Treloar has Google playing Ebert (and/or Roeper - you decide).

"Welcome to GoogleMovies, AvaQuest's movie review opinion analyzer!

Want to get an overall thumbs up/thumbs down opinion of the latest movie? Well, you've come to the right place.

GoogleMovies is a sophisticated text analysis application that uses Google's Web API to search for movie reviews. It then automatically generates an overall opinion as to whether the reviews are favorable, not favorable, or so-so. Like AvaQuest's GooglePeople demo, GoogleMovies demonstrates the compelling applications that can be created by applying text mining and analysis techniques to Google results....

What sets GoogleMovies apart from other review sites is what it does with the reviews once it finds them. Rather than relying on each reviewer's 'star' ratings, or some other subjective rating system, GoogleMovies determines the reviewers' opinion, either positive, negative, or neutral, based on an analysis of the reviews themselves. In other words, it determines the reviewers' opinions based on what they actually say about the movie."

Results include color-coded smiley icons, and the home page has a cached list of current movies displayed from green to red. Now if they could just do the whole "determines based on what he actually says" thing for George W. Bush....

Words of the Year (2002)

"The grim forebodings of the past year were reflected in the American Dialect Society's choice of weapons of mass destruction and its abbreviation WMD as word (or phrase) of the year 2002....

Other candidates for Word of the Year were:

google (verb)—to search the Web using the search engine Google for information on a person or thing: 11 votes.

blog-from weblog, a website of personal events, comments, and links: 6 votes.

Before the voting on Word of the Year, words were also chosen in particular categories. These were the categories for 2002:

— Most likely to succeed: blog (30 votes)....

— Most useful: google (verb). All 60 votes in this category were for this word." [MetaFilter]