Comments on: MySpace Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites

By: Paul Jacobs

Paul Jacobs — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:23:40 +0000

I am still amazed at the fact that an internet site like Myspac.com has garnered so much money and fame. To me the whole internet is fragile…. internet can vanish any minute. Our life is so heavily dependent on electricity…. and if we have no power…. we have no servers…. we have no life…. life as we know it today will be so different. Modern life depends so much on electricity, and if we have no power we have nothing. I still have to give it to those innovators who have creatively came up with winning ideas like myspace.com, youtube.com.

By: Casandra

Casandra — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:11:25 +0000

I’m so irritated with ebay stuff. They keep sending out those crappy letters to me. And I can’t imagine why a company that big will need this kind of promotion… Speaking about MySpace ..I think the success is tightly bound with underaged users who adore it.

By: texas musicians

texas musicians — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:45:08 +0000

i can honestly say i go to yahoo and myspace both at least 10 times a day. i have been keeping track of myspace at alexa.com since it first became an online presence. its amazing how fast it grew and it seems to me mostly by word of mouth. i dont remember any big advertising campaigns for myspace unlike the ebay super bowl ads, the constant monster.com commercials etc…

By: Chris G

Chris G — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 03:07:20 +0000

It might be interesting to see a top 20, minus the noise. In other words, we know these sites are top sites that people are typing in to a search field instead of the address bar. But if you de-duped the top-100 search terms against the names and URLs of the top 10 websites, what results would you be left with? It would likely be a more interesting list.
Besides elightening us about people’s ill-use of browser software, the list above doesn’t tell us much that we couldn’t learn from a top 20 website list. If the intent is, to learn what information web-users are searching for on a weekly basis, a list that filtered out this noise would give an exceptionally more useful list of results.

By: Greg Michael

Greg Michael — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:50:58 +0000

Yes, you ae right Shandalar. Fox News owns MySpace now. Clear Channel is radio/entertainment only, nothing to do with News Corp. But this huge popularity of MySpace shows that the U.S. Web audience like communicating with blogs. This shows that Web 2.0 is really taking place. See my blog at sadbastards.wordpress.com.

By: Brandon Tyler

Brandon Tyler — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:39:44 +0000

And they use ASP.NET 2.0 for their technology. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/scottgu for more info on myspace and ASP.NET 2.0

By: Strilka

Strilka — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:37:26 +0000

Creating a MySpace ambassador Web page has been an important strategy for Strilka (see myspace.com/strilka). MySpace allows us to create a gathering area that introduces our company to new customers, surgically promote our brand with informal announcements, custom personal messages, and connect with people. MySpace has also
stimulated our affiliate programmes, co-marketing initiatives, banner exchanges (important for Google’s PageRank number), and even spurred
business development.
It would be a greedy mistake, however, to use MySpace as a funnel or meta advertisement board. There has to be give and take, so we prefer
to think of it as a two-way street and have several links to MySpace sites and YouTube videos that rotate from time to time on strilka.com.
The activities mentioned above, however, are hardly new since many artists, musicians, bands, record labels, authors, and companies,
especially Web firms, have promoted themselves on MySpace for years creating their own cultures and identities.
Despite rumours that MySpace is “teen trash”, or that growth rates are peaking (particularly with Friendster), leveraging ambassador pages on
key social networking sites can be an effective online marketing strategy that stimulates growth.
Judging by the humbling public comments that we have received, myspace.com/strilka has created a certain amount of goodwill for us. Outside observers have even instructed us to introduce a goodwill line item on our balance sheet (though that sounds premature to me). Strilka is a very small start-up, barely 1 year old, with no
resources. Yet, after creating a MySpace ambassador site in March 2006, our membership doubled.
William Szuch,
Co-founder
Strilka – The New Ukrainian Singles Network

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:46:09 +0000

How much of the MtSpace traffic is the own user using his or her own page?

By: Pinoy Explorer

Pinoy Explorer — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:09:19 +0000

MySpace on top but not in the Philippines

Friendster users wake up! MySpace has just made headlines when Hitwise has come out with a press release stating that “MySpace Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites.”
It has even surpassed Google and Yahoo! according to Hitwise. Spe…

By: jhay

jhay — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:40:22 +0000

Wow, this is something. MySpace on top of the world. Which makes me wonder, why is Friendster still popular here in the Philippines while MySpace seems to be hardly used.

By: JK

JK — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:11:08 +0000

Yes, it is News Corp

By: Shandalar

Shandalar — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:49:28 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the parent coorporation of Fox News, News Corp, not Clear Channel?

By: Ah Wei

Ah Wei — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:54:49 +0000

I agreed to what nicole say, I seen that many time, you can’t imagine how many people go to yahoo, for example, when they want to visit a site, they enter in the yahoo search field, and then click from there… instead of entering it in the address bar. This are what we call, real internet users.. which whatever they do, will determine how the internet going to be, they are the 95% of people who’s not involve in anything related to internet and they are “users”, the most powerful crowd of the internet, just like most people think myspace ugly… who’s “most people” ? “Most people” are the smallest group of people in the internet, those involve in internet industry, geeks, designers, e-commerce, programmer, e-consultant etc.. and users in myspace are not from “most people” crowd. They are the greater sum or “more most” people, the users, they 95% of people who at this point, can only design / adding those ugly flashy things in their website. We all miss the point, myspace luckily catch all this 95% of the users.

By: Sean Lemson

Sean Lemson — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:08:46 +0000

I just hope those visitors realize that with each visit to myspace they’re now enriching the parent company of Fox News (Clear Channel). It was an ingenious move on their part to occassionally send messages about board updates from “Tom” making it seem like a mom and pop operation.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:50:06 +0000

I’ve watched my non techie friends on the web. Since their “home page” from their ISP has a search box, instead of using the address bar to go anywhere, they type in all addresses/site names into a search field on their homepage and use that to navigate everywhere.
Yes – they really do search for http://www.myspace.com – and there is no use of showing them how to use the web correctly, because they are unwilling to change because despite the fact they aren’t using the browser as intended, it works for them.

By: Jim Mathies

Jim Mathies — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:50:09 +0000

SEW:
According to the Hitwise site, this data comes from ISP logs, which would imply the data comes from all search engines, including Google.

The network-centric methodology employed by Hitwise enables the most efficient way of monitoring of how more people visit more websites than any other way of measuring Internet usage.
Hitwise has developed proprietary software that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) use to analyze website usage logs created on their network. The anonymous data sent to Hitwise from the ISPs include a range of industry standard metrics relating to the viewing of websites including page requests, visits and average visit length.
Hitwise also combines this rich ISP data with a worldwide opt-in panel to overlay demographic, lifestyle and transactional behavior across the thousands of websites that are reported on every day.
Because of the extensive sample size of network data, Hitwise can also provide detailed insights into the search terms used to find thousands of sites as well as a range of clickstream reports, analyzing the movements of visitors between sites.

I sense your attempting to find bias in the results by claiming the data doesn’t represent some sort of “savvy” search user, those you assume use Google.
I think your post shows just how oblivious the geek crowd can be when it comes to users. The vast majority of internet users out there are made up of your average Joe and Jane – exactly the type of user who types simple terms into search engines in an effort to find what they are looking for. Apparently, these people like to visit myspace, and navigate to sites like ebay, yahoo, myspace, and many others by first visiting a search engine and punching in a keyword. I think this is the most interesting aspect of this data, and shows sites that are tailored to meet the needs of the ‘average’ user will ultimately garner more search traffic.

By: Gary Bourgeault (thealphamarketer.com)

Gary Bourgeault (thealphamarketer.com) — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:16:56 +0000

No matter which way you look at it, this is phenomenal growth.
Still I would have liked to see more insight into what the metrics being used were also, along with search starting points.

By: Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:11:52 +0000

That is amazing, seriously. It is almost unbelievable.
Bill, what do you think about these numbers, outside of them just being numbers?

By: Andre

Andre — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:35:55 +0000

How can you say they are not ‘savvy’ searchers when you have no idea what they are searching for? When people search, they define, and then they redefine until they get what they want. They don’t want anything to fall between the cracks, so to speak. You my friend, are an idiot. OWWW

By: Search Engine WEB

Search Engine WEB — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:36:38 +0000

Based on the simplicity of those terms – it would appear that those searchers are NOT savy searchers.
It would be interesting to find out WHICH search engines they were using for their searches.
It appears to be mostly MSN/ AOL
type people…for example why would someone search for YAHOO when they are ALREADY on Yahoo.