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Footnote Entry on the Death of Excite

         

Brett_Tabke

8:34 pm on Mar 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

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The most interesting statistic however, was that while the top 10 searches were thousands of times more popular than the average search, these top-10 searches represented only 3% of our total volume. 97% of our traffic came from the “long tail” – queries asked a little over once a day. You know the real reason Excite went out of business? We couldn’t figure out how to make money from 97% of our traffic. We couldn’t figure out how to make money from the long tail – from those queries asked only once a day.

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TomWaits

2:43 am on Mar 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

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LOL, yeah, that's the real reason.