Torrent site is more popular than CNN
13 Nov 2007 | 18:50 GMT
Mininova.org more interesting than politics
FROM TIME TO time, a lot of industry experts will start an argument how much Internet traffic comes from Spam e-mails and p2p protocols.
But it is not often that a torrent search engine can overtake prime sites covered with multibillion dollar news organizations, where a single staffer has higher salary than these guys have budget.
The honor of beating one of world's leading news sites goes to staffers from Mininova.org, who overtook CNN.com back in mid-October, but now it seems that ThePirateBay.org is also on the move. Lads from TPB.org just overtook News.com, and are on a way to overtake CNN.com as well.
In order to get the traffic back, Foxnews.com could consider
introducing torrent search on its site.
In a small and quick search, we took Mininova.org and ThePirateBay.org and compared them to cnn.com, foxnews.com and news.com, C'Net's very sneaky domain that targets ton of mainstream users and brings them to a ICT-laden website
Alexa.com can have difficulties counting visitors (some sites don't move at all, and yet their stats are up, sites with stats that are up are going down - at least according to the site stat engine), but it is still very interesting to see how a small site run by couple of enthusiasts can easily become a site in Top 50 most visited ones.
It is hardly credible that some corporation would come and buy the site like Mininova, IsoHunt or ThePirateBay.org, but we'll see how things will develop in this arena. µ
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