Well this is the first Searchnerd Cool Site of the Day. I come across interesting stuff now and then and want to pass it on. I can’t guarantee I will do this every day, but today I pick Akamai’s new Net Usage Index. Many people have never heard of Akamai, but they are one of the most important companies on the Internet. They are responsible for DNS and other site issues for companies as big as Yahoo and Microsoft and if you download a legal opinion from The Supreme Court of the United States - you aren’t downloading it from the Supreme Court - you are downloading it right off of Akamai’s servers.
Akamai claims they handle between 10-20% of all Web traffic.. Now the cool part - you may have seen a picture of their “War Room” before - now you can get a little piece of that on your browser - just go to:
http://www.akamai.com/en/html/industry/net_usage_index.html
This shows you a map of the world updated every five minutes with facts and figures about the level of Internet traffic at news sites.
The Akamai Net News Index is the world’s first and only daily Web traffic benchmark that tracks where news is being consumed on a global basis. Akamai, as the delivery platform for more than 100 global news portal companies, has a unique view into the daily Web traffic of major news sites. Akamai has been in business for seven years, and serves content on behalf of the majority of the world’s leading online news portals. Distributing billions of page views daily for these news information sites, Akamai is in the unique position to be able to track news consumption on a global scale. At any point in time, millions of PC users (and increasing numbers of cell phone and other PDA users) are online consuming news.
Well I think it is cool.
Yep, it is pretty cool. At least a few more people cared about the first London bombing than the Michael Jackson verdict.
I watch the Yahoo buzz index every day and sometimes I have no idea why some of those people names (and it is mostly people names that spike on Yahoo) are generating interest. At least with Akamai you know you’re dealing with some solid new sites as well as infotainment junk.
Left by tedster on August 25th, 2005