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Author Topic: What the heck is this?  (Read 1665 times)

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What the heck is this?
« on: December 11, 2004, 02:25:49 PM »
I was doing a google search for something and I happened to run across this thing.

Any ideas on Weird Tingly Feeling it is?

http://www.blogshares.com/view_press_releases.php?blog=http://www.hackernetwork.com/
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« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2004, 02:44:07 PM »
Click on the big Hacker Network link at the top of that page, and it goes to this page here.

Scroll to the bottom, and you'll see links to pages with titles like Fark, Badassmofo and Something Aweful. I don't know what's going on here, but it looks like some kind of automatic statistic gathering mechanism was inundated by Farkers or Goons. Maybe it's some kind of spider that tracks most popular blogs by counting numbers of hits. I can see how Fark or SA would make the grade, but I'm surprised HN is on anyone's horizon at all.

Time to hit CG up for some deeper access into HN's bowels -- I'd like to know what kind of trafic it gets and from where.
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« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2004, 02:49:57 PM »
Ah... here it is:

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BlogShares is a fantasy stock market for weblogs. Players get to invest a fictional $500, and blogs are valued by inbound links.
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« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2004, 05:46:02 PM »
Quote from: ivan
Time to hit CG up for some deeper access into HN's bowels -- I'd like to know what kind of trafic it gets and from where.


Last time I talked to him about that, he was doing about 2000 unique users a day. I'm not sure if that has changed since then. I'm guessing it has.
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« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2004, 11:01:38 PM »
That is bizarre.
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« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2004, 12:09:50 PM »
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Ah... here it is:

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Good lord.  

And I thought I wasted a lot of time doing pointless things online!   :shock:
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« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2004, 04:38:22 PM »
Well if it gets 2000 or more unique hits a day then that restores my faith somewhat in the human condition.  Sometimes it seems as though the non-reading kiddiots are coming out of the woodwork.

Apparently there are actually some that can, and do.
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