http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/google.com #1 yahoo #2 youtube #3 live #4 google is this old news ?
I don't get how Google's rankings could fall so fast. However, considering they own all the Google websites (.ca, .co.uk, etc.), not to mention YouTube, they are still probably the number one business on the internet.
Live went up google, that's a success for Microsoft. Recently we have noticed, just one day traffic, from google we got 11, from yahoo 4 and from live search 14. Looks like more people are using live for search. Live also looks good.
Well Alexa’s ranking as stated by Alexa itself is biased. It is based on a small percentage of a whole lot of internet surfers. I think Alexa doesn't give proof of anything so far but just simply put in ranking for website with uncertain data. But still alot of value is given to Alexa’s ranking so..
Whatever mate but I think Alexa may be right with all the linking people do for Youtube and with all the redirected traffic. See many people started to use the internet only for Youtube. Even the mainstream advertising like that with the elections campaigns etc also influenced this rise.
alexa rankings are based on the small percentage of people who have alexa toolbars downloaded to their computers. Im sure less then 1% of all interenet users have alexa toolbars downloaded so their rankings are very inaccurate.
I'm going to have to say Alexa is messed up look at the statistics from Compete. Compete is usually better in my opinion as they look at ISP records, etc...
One of my sites now has an Alexa rank of 37,000. I hope it will be joining this Top 4 list very soon!
Yes, many people have too much free times so they use YouTube to find some stupid cats or music videos.