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At Snopes, a Quest to Debunk Misinformation Online
- brc 17y agoGreat to see some figures on snopes. 7-8 million uniques per month, $3000 bandwidth bill, 2 staff. With those sorts of numbers I'm sure they could optimise and monetize the site better than that. I bet if they had a paid email list ($5-10/yr)where you got the debunks/explanations 24-48 hours ahead of anyone else you'd get quite a few conversiosns. Maybe even enough revenue to change the horrid site design and clunky search. Great site though.
- unwind 17y agoIt's the two founders, plus two additional employees, so I think it would be more correct to say that their number of staff total is four.
- dreyfiz 17y agoIt's a good project. I find the way Snopes disables highlighting and copying very irritating though. I always have to disable javascript when I'm there.
- geofffox 17y agoI agree. The value of Snopes is debunking mass emails. What I want to do is email a short citation, but it's a royal pain-in-the-ass and, as is always the case, it doesn't really stop sites that want to scrape Snopes content.
- zackattack 17y agoYeah but their content probably gets more links. Clearly it is one component of an incidentally winning strategy.
- neilc 17y agoThe fact that they are net-successful doesn't mean that every aspect of their approach is a good idea.