For the first time, Wikipedia's one-day traffic rank has today hit 9, its highest level ever.
Only 8 more to go.
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=http://en.wikip...
-- Neil
On 05/01/07, Neil Harris usenet@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
For the first time, Wikipedia's one-day traffic rank has today hit 9, its highest level ever. Only 8 more to go. http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=http://en.wikip...
Remember that that's relative, not absolute. Here's our actual page request stats:
http://www.nedworks.org/~mark/reqstats/reqstats-monthly.png
Note the *dip* over Christmas-New Year, just in time for the fundraiser ...
http://www.nedworks.org/~mark/reqstats/ is lots of interesting and scary reading, btw :-)
- d.
Why do people put so much weight on Alexa's rankings? It's based on very biased self selecting sample...
Thomas Dalton wrote:
Why do people put so much weight on Alexa's rankings? It's based on very biased self selecting sample...
That's probably right. Still it's very easy for quick access, and that's fine for casual information. If one wants to seriously prove a point more spophisticated means should probably be used.
A similar question might be why do so many people use Microsoft? ... or (shudder) even AOL?
Ec
On 1/7/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
... or (shudder) even AOL?
You've got me there. I honestly have no idea. Masochism, perhaps?
Cost, ease of installation and avialibilty. And AOL does provide a high degree of hand holding for those who want it.
... or (shudder) even AOL?
You've got me there. I honestly have no idea. Masochism, perhaps?
Cost, ease of installation and avialibilty. And AOL does provide a high degree of hand holding for those who want it.
It's no cheaper than other similar ISPs. There is nothing to install for internet access, it's all built into Windows (I don't believe AOL supports other OS's) - you just have to run the "internet connection wizard" - the CD's are purely to get the ISPs name in the title bar of internet explorer, they don't do anything else. And it's definately no more available than other ISPs - availability is dependant on your phone line, not your ISP. I can't judge for handholding, as I've never needed to phone an ISP for help, so it's possible you've got a point there.
On 1/7/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
It's no cheaper than other similar ISPs.
I'm trying to work of if describeing an ISP as simular to AOL would constitute lible.
There is nothing to install for internet access, it's all built into Windows (I don't believe AOL supports other OS's) - you just have to run the "internet connection wizard" - the CD's are purely to get the ISPs name in the title bar of internet explorer, they don't do anything else.
If only that were so. They instill a complete browser shell over IE.
And it's definately no more available than other ISPs - availability is dependant on your phone line, not your ISP.
Not exaclty not all ISPs offer all their services in all areas.
I can't judge for handholding, as I've never needed to phone an ISP for help, so it's possible you've got a point there.
While their customer service is probably better than NTL (not hard) that isn't quite what a meant. AOL gives people who want it a sort of cordened off area of the internet with nothing more dangerious than AOL regulars and certainly nothings as freaky as say 4chan.
geni wrote:
On 1/7/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
It's no cheaper than other similar ISPs.
I'm trying to work of if describeing an ISP as simular to AOL would constitute lible.
You know that AOL was the cause of the Endless September, right?
I'm trying to work of if describeing an ISP as simular to AOL would constitute lible.
I'll call my lawyer... ;)
If only that were so. They instill a complete browser shell over IE.
AOL do, yes. Which makes installing AOL far more complicated than any other ISP, as you actually have to install something.
Not exaclty not all ISPs offer all their services in all areas.
It's more different types of internet connection are available in different places (ADSL, cable, satalite, etc) - if you can get ADSL from AOL, you can get it from anyone. The speed might be different if one ISP has LLU at your exchange, but that's all.
While their customer service is probably better than NTL (not hard) that isn't quite what a meant. AOL gives people who want it a sort of cordened off area of the internet with nothing more dangerious than AOL regulars and certainly nothings as freaky as say 4chan.
There is that. AOL is much more like the pre-internet days of seperate networks. (Maybe that's why they're so rubbish - they didn't notice when the internet arrived)
On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:10:00 +0000, Neil Harris usenet@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Only 8 more to go.
Unlikely, unless we start offering free email or setting every copy of Windows to use Wikipedia as its default home page.
Guy (JzG)
Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:10:00 +0000, Neil Harris usenet@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Only 8 more to go.
Unlikely, unless we start offering free email or setting every copy of Windows to use Wikipedia as its default home page.
Guy (JzG)
Well, let's go do that!
Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:10:00 +0000, Neil Harris usenet@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Only 8 more to go.
Unlikely, unless we start offering free email or setting every copy of Windows to use Wikipedia as its default home page.
Guy (JzG)
Well... a lot (most?) of Wikipedia's traffic comes from search engine results, which the site has been steadily rising through to the point that it is now the first result for a huge number of search terms. So, provided a search engine of some kind is the default home page, it is never far away.
-Gurch
On 1/5/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:10:00 +0000, Neil Harris usenet@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Only 8 more to go.
Unlikely, unless we start offering free email or setting every copy of Windows to use Wikipedia as its default home page.
We are getting close. Microsoft is using its autoupdate tool to push the MSIE 7.0 to its dron^wcustomers. People will have the "option" to "chose" for different search providers for the upper right search form (maybe you have seen this in FF already). One of the offered search tools is Wikipedia.
This should - however - not stop us from creating an offline tool that could be installed instead of Encarta for OEMs...
Mathias
Mathias Schindler wrote:
On 1/5/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:10:00 +0000, Neil Harris usenet@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Only 8 more to go.
Unlikely, unless we start offering free email or setting every copy of Windows to use Wikipedia as its default home page.
We are getting close. Microsoft is using its autoupdate tool to push the MSIE 7.0 to its dron^wcustomers. People will have the "option" to "chose" for different search providers for the upper right search form (maybe you have seen this in FF already). One of the offered search tools is Wikipedia.
This should - however - not stop us from creating an offline tool that could be installed instead of Encarta for OEMs...
Mathias
Just persuade some popular OEMs to ship new PCs with a shortcut to Wikipedia on the desktop; that'd be enough.
-Gurch
On 1/5/07, Gurch matthew.britton@btinternet.com wrote:
Just persuade some popular OEMs to ship new PCs with a shortcut to Wikipedia on the desktop; that'd be enough.
including a shortcut to a website is not something that can be sold to the customer as a feature. OEMs are doing this because they get paid for (this way or another).
Mathias
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 20:59:29 +0100, "Mathias Schindler" mathias.schindler@gmail.com wrote:
We are getting close. Microsoft is using its autoupdate tool to push the MSIE 7.0 to its dron^wcustomers. People will have the "option" to "chose" for different search providers for the upper right search form (maybe you have seen this in FF already). One of the offered search tools is Wikipedia.
Yup. But let's not forget that "making #1 in Alexa" is not one of the aims of the project...
Guy (JzG)
On 1/5/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
Yup. But let's not forget that "making #1 in Alexa" is not one of the aims of the project...
being #1 on alexa will be a coincidental side-effect, same as world-domination and one or two nobel prizes.