20 Years of Internet's Biggest Properties

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[–]happysmash27 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm surprised at how big Walmart and The Weather Channel are, of all sites, especially seeing as how rarely I've seen The Weather Channel when searching for weather online.

Edit: Also, what defines how big the sites are? I barely know about a lot of the ones on the right, and this seems to exclude sites like Netflix.

Edit: Honestly, the root source just seems dubious, especially when I compare it to Alexa data. It excludes so, so many big sites and adds so many tiny ones!

[–]wizzwizz4 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

I'm confused. This shows some mergers but not all (e.g. shows Yahoo → Oath but not Geocities → Yahoo), and shows some things as mergers that aren't mergers (e.g. MSN → Microsoft). Also, the choice of whether a particular thing is given an icon seems to be arbitrary.

From this I propose that the data might be being played with to push something in particular – probably the idea that the web is getting more commercialised over time, considering that it's visualcapitalist.com and there are more icons on the right than the left.

[–]Vigte[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Interesting analysis! Perhaps indeed it is intended to put forth a specific opinion - not sure to what end though!!

Good for you, keeping your shields up!

[–]wizzwizz4 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Suggesting that the web is more "controlled" than it is, prompting people to pursue alternatives? A worthy cause, but not one worth deception.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You're over analyzing a simplifying chart. The artist listed their sources so maybe their sources were limited too and they were too lazy to get in deeper.

If you really want to get picky why are there only two characters at the top? Why isn't there someone with a tablet and a phone?

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Because the characters at the top are completely irrelevant; they're not the data being presented.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They're not irrelevant or they would have been images of avocados, flowers, chimney's or other random/decorative elements.

It's very illustrative of the "20 YEARS OF INTERNET GIANTS"

Needless to say this is an example, like yours, of perhaps being hyper-critical when a glance is all is necessary to get the idea.

[–]hennaojisan 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

I will confess to having never listened to this guy. Why? Because he insists on showing his bare bird breast every chance he gets. Who wants to see that? And what is the purpose? If he has something to say, then say it but cover up like normal people. Am I narrowminded? Maybe so.

[–]happysmash27 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Which guy?

[–]hennaojisan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The guy with a bare chest and leather jacket: styxenhammer666 or something like that. It's 2019 but he is still sporting long greasy hair and wire-rimmed glasses. I just don't want to hear anything he has to say.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Styx?

[–]hennaojisan 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The river or the group?

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Styxhexxenhammer666 the YouTuber

[–]Vigte[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

?? Wrong thread?

[–]hennaojisan 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Uh, sorry, I am not always 100% if you know what I mean. I like your stuff Vigte.

[–]Vigte[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Sauce

[–]happysmash27 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Plants and spices: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/20-internet-giants-rule-web/.

Edit: The source this source got it from seems pretty dubious in quality. Where do they get their data from? And why don't they properly show acquisitions? And which sites do companies like CBS actually run in order to be so big?

Edit 2: Comparing to the Alexa data, this seems even more dubious. It excludes so many big sites!