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Main on March 24th, 2010 by Pingdom
We wanted to share an interesting observation regarding the two social networks that are dominating our collective mindshare these days: Facebook and Twitter.
Both get their fair share of attention from the media, but a very interesting pattern has emerged over the last year that we will reveal here below.
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Main on September 21st, 2009 by Pingdom
Are young Internet users less stingy than old ones? That certainly seems to be the case when it comes to paying for online content according to a new survey by paidContent:UK.
In the survey, 1,188 UK adults between the ages 16-64 were asked what they would do if their favorite news site started charging money. The results weren’t exactly what you might expect.
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Main on July 15th, 2008 by Pingdom
Traditional news media have embraced the Web, and these days we have a lot of great news sources online. We here at Pingdom have surveyed 13 of the top news websites in the world, monitoring the likes of CNN, Reuters, the New York Times and Times Online. The survey ran for the first half of [...]
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Main on October 5th, 2007 by Pingdom
Google News and Yahoo News are the two largest news aggregators (and news search engines) in the world. Both Google and Yahoo earn their money mainly through advertising, and these websites have so much traffic and so many page views that any downtime they have will be very expensive since it becomes the equivalent of [...]
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