MySpace has more traffic than Google
Latest Internet traffic stats, which I reproduce below via A VC, are stunning. Page views last month, largest web properties, from Media Metrix: Yahoo! - 43,700MM Time Warner - 31,600MM (AOL is roughly 70% of this) Microsoft - 21,800MM (MSN is part of this) eBay - 10,900MM MySpace - 9,600MM Google - 6,300MM * MySpace, which didn't even exist 2 years ago, has more page views than Google * MySpace is growing at 50% per quarter * It's still a US-centric phenomenon. Can/will it scale internationally? A VC makes has the salient takeaway: "Who is the smartest guy on the Internet right now? Maybe not Sergey and Larry. Maybe Rupert Murdoch. Does $500mm sound like a bargain? It does to me." To that I add a concluding observation that in this field, there really is no long-term stability whatsoever. A startup launched today can really challenge the biggest players with incredible speed.