DISQUS

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  • Ronjit Subhashi · 3 years ago
    Why do you care whether YouTube or Myspace is more popular? It doesn't really affect you.
  • Adam · 3 years ago
    It matters because YouTube's valuation will based entirely on reach rather than revenue, not to mention that there are dozens of other video sharing sites out there, and if YouTube sells it will set the price for the others.

    HOWEVER, Alexa is a load of crap. Case in point, one of our video sharing sites, StreetFire.net gets 4 million visitors a month. YouTube claims 4 times more traffic by their own statements (20 Milion uniques). Their Alexa reach is 40,600 as compared to Streetfire's reach of 265.

    So how can their reach be 153 times greater than a web site that has one fourth their visitor traffic? Something is very fishy here.
  • Matt Marshall · 3 years ago
    Ronjit, it matters because if users perceive one is larger than the other, they'll flock to the larger. Everyone wants their blog, their video, their music, whatever to be seen by the most people possible.

    It affects me because I visit both, and I want to know where the most action is.
  • SearchEngines · 3 years ago
    Gee...it is so surprising that people would find someone elses' Digg profile that usefull...where is the pride of creating and working hard to get a top profile?

    Wonder if any of the bidders are any of the Webmasters whose sites got to the homepage via that users -saying Thank you