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MySpace Makes it to Top 10 Internet Sites

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the emo-teens-have-spoken dept.

prostoalex writes "Nielsen//NetRatings Top 10 is a monthly rating of top 10 Internet destinations. Generally dominated by Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, AOL, eBay and similar major destinations, the list had a newcomer in March of this year. MySpace.com is 10th most visited Web site, losing to #9 Real.com only by 600,000 unique visits per month."

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  1. Content Trumps Design by RunFatBoy.net · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just goes to show, content and relationships will trump design everytime. MySpace is definite proof.

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    1. Re:Content Trumps Design by moosesocks · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Not always. flickr is a good example

      there were dozens of other mildly successful photography communities before flickr came along, many of which covered the social networking aspect of flickr much better.

      flickr simply has the best mix of community and design out there, hence its success among pro photographers and occasional shutterbugs alike.

      facebook is another example. It's basically a well-designed myspace for college kids with proper privacy features. It took hold in a market where dozens of other sites had failed miserably. The design's clean, the site's never been slow to memory (despite exponential growth). Because of this, it is far more prevalent than Myspace among college kids. At my medium-sized state school, I'd estimate that about 90%+ of the student body uses facebook regularly. It's that popular. It's preferred over myspace because it's fast, usable, and not creepy.

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  2. Real? by dalutong · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who goes to real.com?

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  3. Re:real.com WTF? by Odiumjunkie · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Equally, I'd be prepared to bet that msn.com and aol.com have such high rankings based mostly on their use as the default start page for two popular internet browsers, as opposed to explicit user desire to either surf there or use them as a home page based on anything other than lazyness.

  4. web hits vs. actual web use by Gothmolly · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So Real's crappy phone-home player may send 100000000 pagehits to their site every month, but (I guess) people actually use MySpace, as retarded as it is. This is a meaningless statistic.

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  5. Re:But by realityfighter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They were probably collecting data for the companies in the list. Nielsen makes its money selling consumer data, not doing unbiased research.

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  6. Re:in other news by Firehed · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Apparently I've avoided myspace better than you so I never had to put up with it. It's worse than I thought. Hopefully people will realize that static backgrounds are so 1996. Funny how that is... back when I was learning to code html in notepad, my websites looked about the same, but everything was lower resolution and I actually had to do it myself.

    They might as well just call it n00bspace.

    What really freaks me out is real.com at #9. Who the hell goes to real.com? Surely there isn't that big of a market for doing nothing but downloading the unquestionably worst media player in existance. Unless myspace makes you have realplayer installed to put up with the annoying crap in everyone's pages, so they've got the entire community of 'omg lookit me I've got my own website!!11' noobs worldwide, plus the odd person who actually thinks it's worthwhile.

    Maybe I'm just being overly fond of the days when even geeks had dialup and having your own 15mb web presence on Geocities was the cool thing to do (mine's still there!) You'd think that since you can get a domain plus enough hosting to do a mypsace page without the noob for about $30 a year, people might go for that option. Honestly, is myspace.com/noob any more attractive of a site address than geocities.com/noob? Why be a crappy wannabe when you can have noob.com and use your host's page builder app and do wannabe right?

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  7. Re:Sorry... by Vorondil28 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but MySpace behaves as though it were coded by fucking retarded monkeys.

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  8. Re:in other news by Eneff · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I, like you, missed the entire point of myspace for a few months.

    I still don't like it, but I understand it now. It's much like hanging out in a trendy nightclub. At home, I can make the drinks better, I have better taste in decor (what, dragons on the walls isn't better?), and I have full control of my castle.

    But the nightclub is where all the people are!

    It's a way to connect with all of your friends, with a common identification system. Yes, it's ugly as fuck, but that's not the point.

  9. Re:Contrarian Opinion : Myspace rocks! by mlylecarlin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Bands dominate myspace."

    Bands dominate YOUR myspace. Log out and try visiting as an anonymous user. From there it's pretty obvious: idiots dominate myspace.