Google vs. YouTube- October 31, 2007 About a month ago, Microsoft Live passed MSN in daily rank; you should expect to see this reflected in Alexa's three-month rank any day now. The next sites in line for succession --- MySpace and Facebook --- currently lack the reach to upset the Top5. In the middle of this Microsoft dance are Google and YouTube. The following graph illustrates some interesting trends. As you can see, for the lasthttp://awis.blogspot.com/2007/10/google-vs-youtube.html Beyond the New Black- October 23, 2007 As a follow-up to my post about "The New Black," here are more graphs for your consideration. I actually intended to write this up last week but I guess late is the new early. Jumping right in, as a computer scientist, I'm interested in programing language trends. The graph below was seeded from the list of programming languages on Wikipedia. One of my co-workers was offended that "Python ishttp://awis.blogspot.com/2007/10/beyond-new-black.html What can Alexa do for you- October 18, 2007 Summer is over and I am putting together my to-do list for Alexa, trying to figure out what we are going to be working on for the next year. But before I break out my pencil, I thought I'd ask you first. If you have about a minute and a half, take this brief survey and tell me what's on the top of your Alexa wish list: Survey Thanks.http://awis.blogspot.com/2007/10/what-can-alexa-do-for-you.html The Sweet Sound of Music- October 16, 2007 Many of you probably noticed inrainbows.com on our movers and shakers graph last week. This site is where Radiohead released their new album for free download in mp3 format on Oct 10th. If you want the official hard copy CD you can name your own price. This release and distribution method is a first by a well-known heavyweight artist and you can bet the record industry will be watching closely.http://awis.blogspot.com/2007/10/sweet-sound-of-music.html This Post is the New Black- October 9, 2007 Inspired by a graph from DIAGRAM and an old meme, I decided to take a look and see if the internet could help me figure out what is the new what. Variations on this is the new that are fairly common on the web; using Alexa's Web Search Service to search for the phrase " is the new " turned up several million instances of documents that are on hand in our archive. Unlike other search services,http://awis.blogspot.com/2007/10/this-post-is-new-black.html Shake Up in the Alexa Top 10- October 6, 2007 Some of you noticed that this week, Google and MSN traded places in Alexa's Top 10 list. Actually, it's better to say that google.com and msn.com traded places, in order to avoid getting confused. This is mostly due to a significant drop in traffic for msn.com; in fact, because Alexa's Top Sites list is based on three months of data, it's been clear for weeks that MSN and Google were going tohttp://awis.blogspot.com/2007/10/shake-up-in-alexa-top-10.html |