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Pastimes : SI vs. iHub - Battle of the Boards Part 2 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mmmary who wrote (4062)	8/5/2002 9:19:54 PM
From: c.horn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5315

I thought you said you'd never post another message to me..

To: mmmary who wrote (4062)	8/5/2002 11:48:46 PM
From: (Bob) Zumbrunnen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5315

Really thought time would cure that "leaping to conclusions without all the info" problem. IHUB is dead last by a lot in the major finance sites. I wouldn't personally consider iHub one of the majors yet. It's, what, about 2 1/2 years old? It's an up and comer, but not one of the majors. Yet. I notice you didn't list some of the "minors" we're ahead of, though. There's one other problem... ihub Avg. Traffic Rank: 14,248 That's an accurate reading. And will likely continue to climb for quite a while. Strongly. It was 80,000 just a few months ago. SI rank 4,097 Also should be an accurate reading. fool.com rank 906 Also should be accurate. And darned admirable! ragingbull finance.lycos.com rank 25 finance.yahoo.com rank 1 Houston, we have a problem. Something I tried to instill in my children starting with when they first encountered word problems in math class is this very simple check: "Does the answer you came up with make sense? If not, check the math or the data again." That lesson applies to more than just math. So, let me ask you this. Did you just post something without checking to see if it was accurate, or making sure you really understood what you were looking at? Or, to put it another way, do you really think that Raging Bull is the 25th most-visited site on the internet? Do you think Yahoo's stock message boards are the first? Do a little more reading at Alexa and you'll see that what's shown for Raging Bull's ranking is actually the ranking of the entire Lycos network. Same is true of the finance.yahoo.com ranking. Before Alexa started aggregating sites like that, Motley Fool outranked both Raging Bull and Yahoo's stock boards. I don't doubt that if their stock message board sites were separated out that they still would outrank iHub in the Alexa rankings. I know they're bigger. Can't really recall saying iHub was the biggest or the most-visited. But it's definitely pretty frequently-visited. 14,248 is a pretty solid ranking. Actually, well ahead of what CNBC's messages boards were ranked at before they became part of MSN. Just so you'll know, though, I do expect iHub's Alexa ranking to keep going up, and fully expect it to be in the 5000+ area once it's had about 4 years under its belt, but I don't harbor any illusions that it'll ever be more-visited than Lycos.com or Yahoo.com. And the reviews posted by a couple of people with vendettas (one of whom I had no idea was anything but a friend until I saw that, the other of whom has her own misguided agenda) really won't have a lot of impact on that.