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7 July 2003
Filed under:About the Internet at10:51 pm

It is clear that all websites do not have an equal chance of being seen. I have long been concerned about statistics that suggest that, for example, “the top ten sites on capital punishment receive 63% of the topic’s links”. But as Jakob points out, at least the sheer profusion of different possible subjects means that even the biggest websites can only dominate a few subject areas. As he puts it, “small websites get less traffic than big ones, but they can still dominate their niches. For each question users ask, the Web delivers a different set of sites to provide the answers.”

This doesn’t help the millions of websites that aren’t even dominant in their niches – but it does suggest that at least Big Media doesn’t necessarily have a stranglehold on everything on the web.$150,000 loan toassociation loans america credit100 commerical loan mortgagecar loans schedules amatorizationamerican home equity loansto ability loan getcredit loan personal poor $10,000after bankruptcy loan caradvance cash loan 1000car 3000 loan