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Nmap team releases 5 gigapixel favicon map
- Raphael 13y agoMap? What determines the positions?
- yan 13y agoLooks like the color determines the position, and traffic the size.
- alextingle 13y agoWow. How the mighty are fallen. Slashdot: http://nmap.org/favicon/?search=slashdot.org http://nmap.org/favicon/?search=slashdot.org
- MrZongle2 13y agoI think that's just further proof that you cannot afford to go on autopilot once you've become successful.
- chebucto 13y agoSlashdot wouldn't be slashdot if it had kept growing for the past ten years; there are only so many nerds in the world. Anyway, Slashdot's icon is still bigger than ycombinator.com's. :)
- vampirechicken 13y agoThink of it this way: Slashdot is the giant's shoulders that Digg and Reddit and HN stand on.
- DanBC 13y agoYCombinator: http://nmap.org/favicon/?search=ycombinator.com http://nmap.org/favicon/?search=ycombinator.com
- Theodores 13y agoOMG! The porn! Just a few icons away from news.ycombinator.com is incest-dream.com - don't go there! There are plenty of other porn sites surrounding the Hacker News favicon, call me naive, but I didn't think there was that much porn out there on the interwebs these days. Someone told me it was hard to monetize because you cannot compete with free. Plus you don't get a screen full of pop-ups of porn, 1998 style. Seems I will have to re-evaluate what the internet is used for.
- thinkpad20 13y ago> I didn't think there was that much porn out there on the interwebs these days ...seriously?
- batmansbelt 13y ago>Seems I will have to re-evaluate what the internet is used for. Enjoy your "evaluating."
- krapp 13y agoThe internet is for porn, and everything else amounts to a rounding error.
- lsc 13y agoActually, this is not as true as it used to be[1] - streaming video of the regular kind is a really big deal. [1]http://www.tomsguide.com/us/netflix-internet-bandwidth-media-streaming,news-13027.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/netflix-internet-bandwidth-media...
- corin_ 13y agoBandwidth isn't necessarily the best measurement of "what the internet is used for", for example porn may stream in lower quality on average, maybe more people hoard porn (download once, watch many times) as it's probably easier to remember the name of your favourite film than which random site to find your favourite porno on, plus the porn category includes pictures as well as video. But I guess what the best measurement would be is subjective anyway, plus it's not so easy to measure anything like "amount of time spent doing X" or "number of people doing Y". Alternatively it's a valid opinion to have that bandwidth is the best metric, it's just not my opinion.
- x0054 13y agoHow did some of these websites end up so big: http://mywebsearch.com/ http://mywebsearch.com/ <- dead site http://www.babylon.com/ http://www.babylon.com/ http://www.conduit.com/ http://www.conduit.com/ Above is just a sample of sites which have very large logos, and I think they should not, because they are either dead, or can't be possibly as popular as say, the BBC site. Other then that, it looks like it's time to start learning Mandarin, from the looks of it it's quickly becoming the number 2 language on the web. I got English (1) and Russian (3) covered :)
- txttran 13y agoI believe conduit produces one of those adware toolbar plugins that get installed when you install utorrent, etc. It will also attempt to change your browser home page as well. I'm assuming that very few hits to conduit.com are actually intentional.
- ktsmith 13y agoYup, conduit is adware.
- intangible 13y agofc2.com is almost as big as pinterest? Yeah, not sure about the accuracy here.
- barrkel 13y agofc2, from the times I've come across it, feels like it's somewhere between blogspot and tumblr in size. I don't know how big pinterest is compared to those two, but fc2 feels big.
- kalleboo 13y agofc2.com is really massive in Japan, it shows up in my (japanese language) google search with a very high frequency. And since it's Alexa data we're talking about here, it probably makes a difference that IE usage is still relatively high in Japan.
- ineedtosleep 13y agoSome of the "Top Losers" items don't make sense: * YahooJapan: (down arrow) 1.5 to 3.5% * Microsoft: (down arrow) 1.2 to 3.4% * LiveJasmin: (down arrow) 1.2 to 2.0%
- kbenson 13y ago(points changed) to (new percentage). e.g. 1.5 to 3.5% means it dropped 1.5% from 5.0% to 3.5%
- NotUncivil 13y agoCan you calculate the average of those icons? I wonder if there is a pattern.
- AlexanderDhoore 13y agoAh Babylon.com, how I hate you so. May your stupid toolbar burn in hell.
- grannyg00se 13y agoIt would be great to see this as an animation showing growth from say...the day google went live to present.
- NAFV_P 13y agoIf you ever find yourself complaining about the amount of time wasted on HN, just look at all those millions of hours wasted on facebook, then write some bloody Python.