The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #65861 Message #1088671
Posted By: Bee-dubya-ell
08-Jan-04 - 10:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: Mudcat in the top 50 Thousand
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat in the top 50 Thousand
I took a quick look through the top 500 list and it's loaded with sites for pop-up hosts, spyware, hijackware, counters etc. Nobody goes to those sites intentionally, but their hits get counted just the same as those of intentionally visited sites. I question the validity of any ranking that doesn't discount such sites. Including them is like tracking television viewership and giving advertisements the same value as regular programs. Using those criteria, the latest Budweiser ad would be the most popular thing on TV, wouldn't it?