SuperPower: Visualising the Internet
March 12, 2010 12:06 PM Subscribe
Visualising the internet is a treemap of the top 100 sites on the internet. It is part of the BBC's SuperPower, "a season of progammes exploring the power of the internet," which includes videos on "How the internet changed my life" and the radio drama "How to Make Your First Billion."
Down below the treemap itself it says, "The data used to generate the interactive treemap visualisation was collected by the Nielsen company and covers the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil, US and Australia." It says it represents unique visitors in January, 2010.
posted by HE Amb. T. S. L. DuVal at 12:26 PM on March 12, 2010
posted by HE Amb. T. S. L. DuVal at 12:26 PM on March 12, 2010
Hmm, and not a single online gaming or x-rated site up there? I guess those get buried amid the roots of this tree...
posted by Alexandra Kitty at 12:30 PM on March 12, 2010
posted by Alexandra Kitty at 12:30 PM on March 12, 2010
If you hover over the bottom right corner area in the top 100 map, one of them is pornhub. It's right next to Nickelodeon. Another square in that area is FriendFinder Network; which might be AdultFriendFinder.
posted by HE Amb. T. S. L. DuVal at 12:36 PM on March 12, 2010
posted by HE Amb. T. S. L. DuVal at 12:36 PM on March 12, 2010
Real Networks still has a presence on that map? How or why? I (thankfully) haven't had an encounter with a real-player requirement in awhile. What else do they do that gets eyeballs?
posted by maxwelton at 1:00 PM on March 12, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by maxwelton at 1:00 PM on March 12, 2010 [2 favorites]
Classmatesonline.com > Netflix? It's not even a real site, it just points to classmates.com and others of that ilk.
I have to say, the movie of 'net growth' is pretty sweet. Maybe it's the deep shades of red, but it looks like the projected spread of a pandemic from some cheezy movie.
posted by partylarry at 1:11 PM on March 12, 2010
I have to say, the movie of 'net growth' is pretty sweet. Maybe it's the deep shades of red, but it looks like the projected spread of a pandemic from some cheezy movie.
posted by partylarry at 1:11 PM on March 12, 2010
These figures seem highly suspect. By Nielsen's own data the breakdown for search is about 64%/16%/10% Google/Yahoo/MSN-Live, and yet on this treemap the squares are nearly the same size.
posted by Rhomboid at 1:19 PM on March 12, 2010
posted by Rhomboid at 1:19 PM on March 12, 2010
Myspace isn't listed?
I'm assuming it's included in "Fox Interactive Media."
posted by Sys Rq at 2:03 PM on March 12, 2010
I'm assuming it's included in "Fox Interactive Media."
posted by Sys Rq at 2:03 PM on March 12, 2010
Rhomboid, is it perhaps because those figures you linked to are for June of 2009 and the ones they are using are from January 2010? The figures in the BBC map also include eight other countries. How did you search for those figures, by the way?
posted by HE Amb. T. S. L. DuVal at 2:07 PM on March 12, 2010
posted by HE Amb. T. S. L. DuVal at 2:07 PM on March 12, 2010
"Hmm, and not a single online gaming or x-rated site up there?"
Both EA online and pornhub are in the lower right.
I too was amazed how Picasa has managed to equal Flickr. I guess massive installed base plus ease of use (and a bit of anti yahoo backlash).
posted by Mitheral at 2:39 PM on March 12, 2010
Both EA online and pornhub are in the lower right.
I too was amazed how Picasa has managed to equal Flickr. I guess massive installed base plus ease of use (and a bit of anti yahoo backlash).
posted by Mitheral at 2:39 PM on March 12, 2010
perhaps because those figures you linked to are for June of 2009 and the ones they are using are from January 2010?
I don't think so. Search engine market share moves very slowly and large gains are extremely hard. Microsoft famously throws away approximately $2 billion per year down the $10 billion dollar money pit that is their online division, and this buys them about a 3 point Bing market share increase since launch.
The figures used in the BBC piece are supposedly measuring unique users while normally search market share is measured in number of searches. That could potentially explain some difference if the average Google user performs more searches than the average Bing or Yahoo user. But I don't think this comes anywhere close to explaining the difference. According to the proportions of the treemap boxes, the market share is 32%/25%/22%/12%/9.3% compared to the above link's 64%/10%/16%/3.7%/2.1% for Google/Bing/Yahoo/AOL/Ask respectively. Even accounting for the difference in national representation, and the difference between unique users and number of searches, and the difference of six months, I don't see how Google's market share can be halved.
How did you search for those figures, by the way?
It was the first hit for [google market share search 2009].
posted by Rhomboid at 2:46 PM on March 12, 2010
I don't think so. Search engine market share moves very slowly and large gains are extremely hard. Microsoft famously throws away approximately $2 billion per year down the $10 billion dollar money pit that is their online division, and this buys them about a 3 point Bing market share increase since launch.
The figures used in the BBC piece are supposedly measuring unique users while normally search market share is measured in number of searches. That could potentially explain some difference if the average Google user performs more searches than the average Bing or Yahoo user. But I don't think this comes anywhere close to explaining the difference. According to the proportions of the treemap boxes, the market share is 32%/25%/22%/12%/9.3% compared to the above link's 64%/10%/16%/3.7%/2.1% for Google/Bing/Yahoo/AOL/Ask respectively. Even accounting for the difference in national representation, and the difference between unique users and number of searches, and the difference of six months, I don't see how Google's market share can be halved.
How did you search for those figures, by the way?
It was the first hit for [google market share search 2009].
posted by Rhomboid at 2:46 PM on March 12, 2010
Treemap? I'm confused. I thought the internet was a series of tubes.
hey, it's fun to revisit old friends
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:05 PM on March 12, 2010 [1 favorite]
hey, it's fun to revisit old friends
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:05 PM on March 12, 2010 [1 favorite]
Even accounting for the difference in national representation, and the difference between unique users and number of searches, and the difference of six months, I don't see how Google's market share can be halved.
Also one is just talking about search, and the other is search/portal. That's a lot of differences, to be honest.
posted by smackfu at 7:58 PM on March 12, 2010
Also one is just talking about search, and the other is search/portal. That's a lot of differences, to be honest.
posted by smackfu at 7:58 PM on March 12, 2010
Myspace isn't listed?
I'm assuming it's included in "Fox Interactive Media."
Which is just weird. Sure, MySpace is more of a media company than the other big social networks, but it's still certainly a "social network". It is also still its own company, even if that company is part of FIM...
posted by flaterik at 3:50 PM on March 14, 2010
I'm assuming it's included in "Fox Interactive Media."
Which is just weird. Sure, MySpace is more of a media company than the other big social networks, but it's still certainly a "social network". It is also still its own company, even if that company is part of FIM...
posted by flaterik at 3:50 PM on March 14, 2010
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