Welcome to RateItAll's
Best of the Decade Awards
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Time Capsule Winners |
Worst of the Decade |
What a Decade...
From Y2K, to the iPhone, to Kid A, to The Lord of the Rings, to the historic election of President Obama, the 2000s were a heck of a ride. And then of course there were the difficult events. 9/11. The Iraq War. The global economic melt down. The passing of beloved public figures. And throughout it all - from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2009 - RateItAll has been online capturing the pulse of public opinion.
Now it's time to document the decade.
After processing more than 5M opinions across hundreds of Product and Culture topics - from the sublime to the absurd - here are the winners of RateItAll's Best of the Decade Awards.
Best of the Decade: Products
The Products award winners fall loosely in the category of items and services that you can purchase. In this section, we cover a variety of popular consumer products such as cars and vehicles, pet food, electronics, fashion, consumer packaged goods, health and beauty, beverages, tobacco, and more. But we also cover best in class companies, institutes of learning, menu items from popular restaurants, and service providers.
Best of the Decade: Culture
The Culture award winners are a celebration and remembrance of the people, events, cultural norms, and media which shaped the decade. In this section, we cover the most significant events of the decade, the most noteworthy from the world of music, film, and literature, the best of the Internet, some top gaming titles, as well as a number of cultural norms and oddities that made the decade special.
Time Capsule ~ Coming Soon!
In addition to the Product and Culture awards, we've also compiled our Time Capsule award winners for those products and cultural items that stood the test of time in the 2000s. Specifically, this award set belongs to those people, products, and things that burst onto the scene before 2000, but that were still highly regarded by our rating community throughout the decade of the 2000s. Examples here would be Classic Movies and Best All-Time NBA Basketball Player.
Worst of the Decade Awards ~ Coming Soon!
Without the worst, we couldn't have the best. In RateItAll's Worst of the Decade awards, we pay homage to those people, products, and things who distinguished themselves for their ineptitude.
Judging Process
Millions of opinions have been flowing steadily into RateItAll's database for ten years across thousands of categories. These categories were distilled down to ~150 by our editorial team on the basis of quality and depth of data, as well as each category's cultural significance. Once our team was satisfied with the legitimacy of the data, we determined a finalist pool for each category based on our proprietary confidence score algorithm. This algorithm combines quantitative rating data with the overall number of ratings to rank each item. At this point, our editorial staff reviewed the finalists, provided a final reality check, and awarded RateItAll Best of the Decade trophies.
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About RateItAll
Based in San Francisco, RateItAll is a consumer rating community where visitors can find and share opinions on virtually any topic. Since the company's inception, more than 5M opinions have posted to its databases from hundreds of thousands of consumers. All of the site's content is available for syndication via widgets, and RateItAll members share in the advertising revenue associated with their reviews. RateItAll's mission is to power the exchange of the world's opinions.
Links
To RateItAll's Best of the Decade Awards: Products
To RateItAll's Best of the Decade Awards: Culture
Coming Soon: RateItAll's Best of the Decade Awards: Time Capsule
Coming Soon: RateItAll's Worst of the Decade Awards