The Top 99 SE's

[NFFC]

"Top9.com is the Internet's first Search Directory to use consumer intelligence to comprehensively rank the most popular websites by industry category on a monthly basis."

Some good opportunities for market research here.

Top 9.com [top9.com]

[tedster]

Very nice. Conspicuous by their abscence -- AOL. Just hiding their data, I assume.

[NFFC]

They have them catagorised as an ISP [top9.com]. Certainly the data is not without it's faults but it provides a sort of back door into PC Data Online [pcdataonline.com].

[rencke]

Another great day for parochialism. If they had bothered to take the rest of the world into account, every one of leading SE:s in at least 20 European countries would have made it onto this list. Sigh!

[chiyo]

yes they should make it clear that they are talking US sites. This type of assumption is manifest on the Net as if the world starts and ends at US borders.

[tedster]

>>They have [AOL] catagorised as an ISP.

But not MSN? That's a thing that makes me go hmmmm...

Still, I know I will make use of the data here. Thanks NFFC.

>>...as if the world starts and ends at US borders

One of the reasons that my clients have a web presence is the hope of finding a more global market. But helping them to do that is made more challenging by this parochialism.

Right now the web is "more global" than the phone service, but just by a little bit.