ok, so name 5 top web sites…its not hard.
Yahoo
MSN
Amazon
Alta Vista
and of course straight dope.
But which website IS the MOST visited website on the internet? and does this make them the most POPULAR??
Yahoo
This site lists the top fifty by unique user.
Strange, all you have to do is just push the netscape ‘whats related’ button near the location bar & youll see how any site ranks.
I would think microsoft rates high.
I have to imagine that Netscape, MSN, and Microsoft may be artificially higher than they should be due to the fact that many users never figure out how to change their browser’s home page and therefore hit those sites each time they open a browser.
thats a good point. so do these analytical companies take this into account when they compile the “internet charts” as such??
If the average human had an ounce of sense, the Straight Dope would be the most popular site on the internet.
The fact that it is not is proof that I am surrounded by idiots.
dont mean to lower the tone, but i heard that porn is the most searched subject on the net.
can anyone support or reject this claim?
That “404” page seems popular.
speaking of which…
A friend of mine told me about a study he read, but I’ve been unable to confirm. He claimed that the most frequently cited bibliographic entry in scholarly works was the New York Times, but recently CNN.com had replaced it as the most frequent citiation. Anyone heard of this? And who would research something like this anyway? Kate Turabian?
If it isn’t number one, then it should be.
I know it’s the most researched subject in MY house… 
From a quick look at the list posted by manhattan, I was amazed that the first porn site CAME in at #43.
Forget it Lance. If the SD were the best, it would be down 99% of the time from too many accesses.
How does the board rate? Easy, hit ‘whats related’ answer:
Owner: The Straight Dope Publishing
Date established: 23-Dec-95
Popularity: in top 8717 sites on web
Number of pages on site: 90
Number of links to site on web: 1318
8,717th or thereabouts…
Newspapers and TV channels do not qualify as citable sources for scholarly works. The normal rule is to cite the original source. If you’re citing a derivative usage of an article or paper as used by a news outlet, you can cite it as something like:
Adams, Cecil “What is pee shiver?” (The Straight Dope Tells All 1998;1:256-257) as quoted in USA Today, March 3, 1999.
This hypothetical citation (in the Vancouver format, for you cite-junkies, and yes, the bold-faced “1” is intentional) indicates that USA Today mentioned the “What is pee shiver?” topic, which is published in the book The Straight Dope Tells All, volume 1, pages 256-257 on March 3, 1999.
But normally, newspapers, magazines and TV news programs don’t get cited in scholarly works. (I’ve got an 8,000 article library database at work, and there’s not a single citation to the NY Times, USA Today or CNN.)
If newspapers don’t get cited in scholarly works, why does my Little, Brown Style Guide go on and on about the correct way to cite them?