hutcheson - 6:25 am on Oct 17, 2006 (gmt 0)

vite_rts, it should be obvious that when you start talking about a multinational firm with physical presence in two continents, you're talking about an organization that can draw on the skills and knowledge of lots of people -- and it's not at all unusual for such an organization to create adequate depth in multiple topics, and we'd be punishing surfers by not featuring their subsites in various categories. But perhaps not.

No, it's not prudent to ask to be measured by the same standards as such sites. You might get your wish. Count the number of full-time, professional, information-technology and content-creation employees Amazon and its suppliers have, multiply by the age of the site, and divide by the number of listings -- to see how many man-years you'd have to put in, to "earn" a single listing comparable to Amazon's. (Start working now, and my great-great-grandchildren might be able to review your site in their retirement years.)