On 12/16/2009 05:05 AM, geni wrote:
There is one point left. We can't measure the change in traffic to Craigslist but we can measure this:
Interesting! If I read that right, the Craigslist page on Wikipedia got an extra 15k pageviews or so. As a comparison, my rough guess is that Craigslist gets 100m pageviews/day. I base that on these numbers:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOrigins.htm http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/craigslist.org+wikipedia.org
Assuming the estimate of circa $100m in annual revenues, and making a number of other overly simplifying assumptions, the ballpark financial advantage to Craigslist for Craig Newmark's appearance here is about $40, or 13 seconds worth of revenues.
William