Despite being knocked off the top spot by TikTok back in late 2021, Google soon reclaimed its title as the most popular domain on the internet, and if the past is anything to go by, it doesn’t seem set to give it up anytime soon. According to Cloudfare Radar’s popularity rankings, Google and its offshoots dominate amongst an overall unsurprising list of sites. Top 10 most popular domains (as of January 6,… Source link
Read More »Google, Facebook Now Take Less Than Half Internet’s Ad Dollars
Photo: MIA Studio (Shutterstock) The sci-fi author Stephen R. Donaldson said that “Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.” A few years ago, I might have told you that’s true—about everything except Google and Meta’s ad businesses. My, how times change. Google and Meta control less than 50% of digital ad spending for the first time since 2014, a trend that’s poised to accelerate over the next few years, according to Axios. Citing predictions from… Source link
Read More »TikTok Was the Internet’s Most Visited Site in 2021, Even Beating Google
TikTok really was everywhere this year. The app, known for its silly dancing videos, was the world’s most visited site on the internet in 2021, surpassing last year’s leader, Alphabet Inc. GOOG 0.88% ’s Google, according to Cloudflare Inc., NET -0.55% a cloud-infrastructure company that tracks internet traffic. The app, owned by… Source link
Read More »Yahoo! Answers was internet’s Stone Age. It was also our friend, agony aunt, and teacher
Illustration by Ramandeep Kaur | ThePrint Text Size: A- A+ Before one could yell ‘Ok Google’, ‘Alexa’, or ask Siri for answers to the most inane questions about love, life, and the universe, there was Yahoo! Answers. Part of the internet stone age, Yahoo! Answers represents an epoch in itself, where people from all mental calibres (truly all) flocked to ask strangers on the internet the most obscure, banal, hilarious, and… Source link
Read More »The Internet’s Home Of Revelations, Yahoo Answers, Will Permanently Close
yahoo Answers, The internet’s favourite wormhole of bizarre questions – and even more bizarre answers – will be permanently closed in May. Yahoo, which is owned by Verizon, announced that they would be officially closing Yahoo Answers on May 4th. Yahoo Answers was a stalwart of the early noughties internet: a forum where users could ask… Source link
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