How did some of these websites end up so big:<p><a href="http://mywebsearch.com/" rel="nofollow">http://mywebsearch.com/</a> <- dead site
<a href="http://www.babylon.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.babylon.com/</a>
<a href="http://www.conduit.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.conduit.com/</a><p>Above is just a sample of sites which have very large logos, and I think they should not, because they are either dead, or can't be possibly as popular as say, the BBC site.<p>Other then that, it looks like it's time to start learning Mandarin, from the looks of it it's quickly becoming the number 2 language on the web. I got English (1) and Russian (3) covered :)
OMG! The porn!<p>Just a few icons away from news.ycombinator.com is incest-dream.com - don't go there! There are plenty of other porn sites surrounding the Hacker News favicon, call me naive, but I didn't think there was that much porn out there on the interwebs these days. Someone told me it was hard to monetize because you cannot compete with free. Plus you don't get a screen full of pop-ups of porn, 1998 style. Seems I will have to re-evaluate what the internet is used for.
Wow. How the mighty are fallen.<p>Slashdot: <a href="http://nmap.org/favicon/?search=slashdot.org" rel="nofollow">http://nmap.org/favicon/?search=slashdot.org</a>
If you ever find yourself complaining about the amount of time wasted on HN, just look at all those millions of hours wasted on facebook, then write some bloody Python.
Some of the "Top Losers" items don't make sense:<p>* YahooJapan: (down arrow) 1.5 to 3.5%<p>* Microsoft: (down arrow) 1.2 to 3.4%<p>* LiveJasmin: (down arrow) 1.2 to 2.0%