My sentiments. I think that anybody who says "URL popularity data mining is valuable" is just repeating what somebody else said. There are probably 100 servic

My sentiments. I think that anybody who says "URL popularity data mining is valuable" is just repeating what somebody else said. There are probably 100 services right now that could tell you the hottest 1,000 URLs. Delicious, Google/Yahoo Buzz, any of the dozens of popular bookmarking and social media sites, AddThis.com and their ilk, Quantcast and their ilk, Twitter, any URL shortening service, your ISP, etc. URLs have been currency for a long time now. I hear about this information being valuable all the time, yet I've never once read about any of these companies profiting from knowing the popularity of URLs. I might just be ignorant, so please HN, tell me who is paying for a list of popular URLs?