Who Is The Most Hated? Which Bank Sucks Hardest?
I conducted a fun little experiment today in an attempt to answer this
question that we've all wanted to know for so long. I googled bank names
followed by the word sucks or preceded by the words I hate with
the query in quotes. I had done this once before and it was amusing then too. So
I thought I'd do it more exhaustively. I even thought of doing them all, but
then I realized that there's a crapload
of banks in the US. So instead I decided to just limit it to 10 bank names I
know well.
Of the banks that I recognize from walking down the street or viewing obnoxious
advertising, the following Google search results have been listed in order from
the largest to the smallest number of results.
| 1,860 "citibank
sucks" 636 "i hate citibank" 1,170 " wells
fargo sucks" 573 "bank
of america sucks" 614 "washington
mutual sucks" 384 "HSBC
sucks" 425 "wachovia
sucks" 190 "chase
manhattan sucks" 177 "ING
Direct sucks" 31 "Bank
of the West sucks" 0 "citizens
business bank sucks" |
For good measure, let's do major credit cards too!
| 3,000 "american
express sucks" 372 "i hate american express" 1,410 "discover
card sucks" 689 "visa
sucks" 700 "mastercard
sucks" |
It's notable that the number of results estimated by Google was different in different browsers, and did not seem to correlate with the number of results that they actually showed. WTF is up with that? Google is weird sometimes. Anyway, this is certainly not an exhaustive study of anything, but it is a fun experiment to see who is the most hated on the web.
I hate them all.
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