Wed April 26

How do you know what's popular on the 'net ?

• Alexa ranking
  • http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?cc=US&ts_mode=country&lang=none (though it only counts folks with their toolbar installed; some strong biases there)
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Internet
  • marlboro.edu - rank: 219,443 ; speed: very slow (3.6 sec)

• Google pagerank
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
  • http://www.iprcom.com/papers/pagerank/ - google pagerank algorithm explained

• Pigeonrank
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_hoaxes#2002:_Pigeon_Rank - my favorite

Some top choices (with Alexa rank)

• portals / search
  • http://yahoo.com (email, clubs, etc)
  • http://google.com (search etc)
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_services_and_tools
  • http://msn.com (microsoft's portal)
• social
  • http://myspace.com
  • http://facebook.com
• selling stuff
  • http://amazon.com
  • http://ebay.com
  • http://cragslist.com
  • http://netflix.com
• news
  • http://nytimes.com
  • http://cnet.com
  • http://slashdot.com
• other
  • http://wikipedia.org
  • http://sourceforge.com
  • http://imdb.com
  • http://youtube.com
  • http://flickr.com
  • http://monster.com

Your choices

• http://limewire.com (raf) peer to peer file sharing
• http://gunthernet.com (katie) recording artist
• http://livejournal.com