YouTube just passed Google in Alexa Ranking. Youtube #2, Google #3

why google is dragging behind.i think alexa DONT count google searches in which search is made from sum1 else site..through google api

 

Lol alexa rank? Come on guys, Google is the #1 site on the web, like it or not.

ps- i love how some people talk like they know how alexa works, but they just make themselves look dumb

 

As someone else noted, Alexa is most accurate for the 1,000 sites. It's an easy system to game if you just want to get in the top 100,000 or top 50,000. Aside from the blackhat method that involves multiple computers running the Alexa toolbar and refreshing on a page (there's more details to it, and I believe you can find them on this forum), you can also get a good ranking by making the site's topic related to web publishing, as people who use the Alexa toolbar are more likely to be web publishers.

 

this was to happen with the number of people using youtube. Nowadays schools and colleges have also started using youtube.

 

Its only because Google has localized domains. Ever tried Google.com from India? It usually always redirects to Google.co.in. Hence, sending some millions of users to their Indian home page.

However, Youtube has only a single main domain.

 

haha , I didn't see that comming )

edit :
1. yahoo
2. youtube
3. live
4. google ) AHAHA

 

yup, Google owns youtube, myspace and orkut and all are in Alexa Top 10.
so that's that yahoo is still at #1 in alexa.

 

There is NO way youtube can surpass Google, a long time back Techcrunch had covered facebook and Orkut, how facebook being way bigger than orkut was in same length with it as far as alexa is concerned.

 

well google slips another position.

live #3
google #4

 

http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global&lang=none

go down that list and see how many google's are on there. theres about 20 on the first page

 

What is live.?? lol... Google will not care the ranking, they make more money than other..

 

wow.. They are getting more and more new people everyday

 

is google the best thing to happen to the internet? or have i just seen one side to google.. i mean google does every basic need (and non basic need for that matter) that any internet user needs.. and just because google.COM is not the highest.. add all googles internet traffic together it will surpass yahoo without thinking about it!.. for me internet without google is like car with no wheels

edit:

and add all of google owned companys... also.. plot yahoo, google and youtube on alexas graphs... youtube really low down!

 

What are you guys talking about? Live.com hasn't passed Google. I still see google as #3.

 

Have you ever asked yourselves, why Yahoo is number one in alexa ranking?

I think I know the answer: I have Yahoo on my home page, when I start my browser, but I do everything else at Google.

 

Yahoo will probably be #1 on Alexa forever. Google won't pass Yahoo.

I love google. I love Yahoo. But how can you expect Google to pass yahoo when Yahoo offers more than Google?

Google is the # 1 search engine.
Yahoo is the # 2 search engine. But Yahoo also has like hundreds of other services and stuff. Yahoo is also the #1 email provider.