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Re:Cuil Fail: Traffic Nearly Hits Rock Bottom by raghus on Saturday December 27, 2008 @03:39PM (#411330)
What's your reference for saying that live.com can hardly get any traffic?

http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=lang&lang... has them at #4 (which seems unbelievable but definitely past the bar of very high traffic sites)

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Re:Cuil Fail: Traffic Nearly Hits Rock Bottom by bd on Saturday December 27, 2008 @08:11PM (#411571)
Isn't Live.com actually composed of gazillion sites? I think Alexa counts all subdomains together.

On Wikipedia there are listed more than 50 subsites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live

With many of these being used directly from Microsoft desktop software, it wouldn't be so unbelievable for Live.com to be #4.

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Re:Cuil Fail: Traffic Nearly Hits Rock Bottom by gaius on Saturday December 27, 2008 @03:54PM (#411347)
Look up the fraction of search traffic they get compared to Google (or even Yahoo) - and the ad revenue they can generate from it.
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Re:Cuil Fail: Traffic Nearly Hits Rock Bottom by pmjordan on Saturday December 27, 2008 @05:18PM (#411434)
Plus they must get a decent amount of traffic from mistyped URLs in IE - I've ended up at live.com a couple of times while trying to test some XHTML/CSS/JS in IE.
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