charles matthews wrote:
"Mark Gallagher" wrote
We're not *exactly* competing with Britannica.
Indeed. If you looked at Alexa, you'd say our main rival was blogger.com.
Wrong metrics will lead to wrong conclusions.
Texaco-manager 1: Our competitor is BP.
Texaco-manager 2: We are not *exactly* competing with BP.
Texaco-manager 3: Look at finance.google.com, our main rival is Oracle as their revenue almost matches ours.
And yes, all CNN, Warner Brothers, NASCAR, Playboy, Wikipedia and Nintendo are competing in terms of spare time of its users.