Brewster Kahle & The Largest Library In History

BorgiaPope writes "WAIS creator and Alexa founder Brewster Kahle is interviewed by Feed. Kahle talks about the 30 terabytes of 'net content stored in Alexa's Linux servers, a data store he calls the 'largest library the world has ever known.' Some fascinating observations about how sites move in and out of the top traffic tier. He also claims that the top ten Web sites have the "greatest worldwide concentration of power since the Roman Empire.""

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Re:Alexa's top50 list

[Azog]

Here's a reality check - for me, anyway: I honestly thought slashdot.org would be somewhere in the top 500. I was going to make a joke about "You know it's time to move on to kuro5hin when slashdot makes it into the top 100". Nope. Slashdot isn't in the top 1000.

Linux doesn't show up in any of the top 1000 domain names, but windows does - once - in windowsmedia.com, which is about a TV-like a site as you can get, and a subsite of MSN.

Google was 21st, cnn.com was 37th, and wired.com was 970. Other than that, none of the sites I've bookmarked are in the top 1000.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the web I see is nothing like the web most of the world sees. I am a little disconcerted though. No wonder the general public doesn't care about software freedom, DeCSS, software patents, privacy, etc. The awful truth is that for most people, the internet is like TV.

What a depressing way to start a Friday.

Torrey Hoffman (Azog)