Wednesday, May 7, 2008

How much is your site worth $$$?

Have you ever wondered how much is your site worth based on the traffice on your site? Also wondered how much a site that you visit often would be worth? Then check out this site (domainoutlook.com) that tells you the net worth of a top level domain. You simply enter a top level domain name and it does its magic and presents you with the estimated value of the domain based on the recent traffic. Here is a screenshot of the site using blogger.com as the top level domain:
As you can see, it says the blogger.com is worth about $267.67 Million and I believe Google has paid much more than that to buy blogger.com.
I am not sure how accurate their calculations are, for example, it lists Yahoo.com ($2.41 Billion) being lot more worth than Google.com ($1.2 Billion), which makes me question the validity of their calculations, but it is an interesting site and you can get a rough idea of how traffic gets translated into ad revenue.
Here is a table that summarizes the net worth of most popular search engines using this site:
Search EngineNet WorthDaily PageviewsDaily Ads Revenue
google.com$1.2 Billion550000000$1650003.16
yahoo.com$2.41 Billion1100000000$3300003
altavista.com$8.99 Million4104477$12316.26
metacrawler.com$169447.676431$232.12
msn.com$481.8 Million220000000$660003
dogpile.com$1.57 Million718484$2155.45
hotbot.com$96403.843078$132.06
excite.com$2.18 Million995475$2989.25
lycos.com$1.48 Million676506$2032.35
alltheweb.com$890008.7405455$1219.19
ask.com$19.75 Million9016393$27052.01
aol.com$114.72 Million52380952$157145.86
a9.com$371803.6168892$509.32
about.com$17.46 Million7971014$23915.87
baidu.com$185.31 Million84615384$253848.8

Happy Surfing,

Sonny

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Play a word game & help the world hunger in the process

I really like this site FreeRice.com that I have come across while visiting the World Food Programme site. Here is a screenshot of the site:
freerice.com
Great way to engage people and in the process help end the world hunger. Very clean and intuitive design and layout. Every word you get it right, the site donates 20 grains of rice to the World Food Prgramme through the help of site sponsors. If you miss a word, it will tell you the correct meaning and will ask you again later to see if you get it right this time. It will keep asking you the word until you get it right. Excellent way to learn vocabulary and you could also set the level where you want to start practicing by going into the options page. And as you progress through more and more words, it will keep moving up the level and if you want to start at the base level again, you simply click on the Home button. Enjoy learning new vocabulary and help the world hunger in the process. Sonny