This might or might not be a diagram for an autonomous “second layer” of the internet.
[image from Project Kleinrock]
Might or Might Not
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Top 50 Websites in the U.S.
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That is, the top 54 websites according to Alexa on June 28th, 2011, minus technical/non-user sites at #34 and #41 and adult sites at #43 and #50.
The only surprise on this list might be Myspace’s continued presence. For a dying website, it still makes the top 50, out of, you know, over 100,000,000 active sites. But also of note is the quick and dramatic drop-off in reach, or the estimated percentage of internet users visiting a site. While Google racked up 52% and Facebook 43% reach yesterday, a great many in this grouping didn’t break 2%.
Wonder what this would look like broken out by owner…
Update: This is what it looks like.
Top 50 Websites in the World
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That is, the top 50 sites according to Google’s DoubleClick Ad Planner for April 2011. There are many other measures.
Anyway, this is global, so there’s very likely some sites you haven’t seen before. For non-English pages, you can click on the favicon for the translated version, but you’ll shortchange yourself if you skip the original…
Wasted URLs: Ape.com and Apes.com
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Ape Con Myth is all for acronyms, but online it is easy to take them too far.
Yes, Automated Production Equipment does equal A.P.E., but even as “The World Leader in Surface Mount Repair Equipment”, this is not cutting it for Ape.com…
But at least A.P.E. is supposedly international and put what looks like an ape under the palm tree in their logo. All Phase Electrical Systems, on the other hand, is an electrical contracting outfit only serving southern California. Unless the owner is big into evolution and thought he was covering a nod to apes by putting his picture on the site, there’s no justification for Apes.com looking like this:
Wasted URLs: Unicorn.com
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There’s pretty much no excuse for this redirect. Of all the places in the IBM empire, something called WebSphere is where they send people looking for unicorn.com?
This is more what we’re looking for when the subject is unicorns…
This domain should be surrendered at once to a commission of elementary school kids who will be charged with its protection from non-awesome incarnations in the future.
You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
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[Internet stats from Google, Internet World Stats]
Perception vs Reality: The Internet in Society
[RSA via I Heart Chaos]
More Light
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(click to see)
[from Evan You]
Wasted URLs: Color.com
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That they paid $350,000 for it and took down colour.com while they were at it hints at some real lunacy.
That they got $41M in funding points to a complete breakdown of the system. And if that isn’t enough waste for you, think of all the people who are going to use it (for a short time).
Wasted URLs: PiDay.com
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You aren’t going to find the digits of pi through that site.
But you can find them here. Celebrate the day by trying to find your phone number or date of birth in the first 1,000,000 digits of pi!
[Image via PiDay.com]
Wasted URLs: California.com
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[via California.com]