Is the Internet dying?
I have noticed something very strange lately. It started when I saw the TV-ads for Yahoo, I thought it was insane to air ads for a website. A bit later I saw a chart somewhere on the interwebs that showed a steep decline in traffic for Yahoo. I wondered how Yahoo's main competitor MSN was doing, so I started researching a bit with the help of my dear friend Google Trends.
After a while I noticed almost a pattern in the traffic decline of major global websites, all starting around September 2008. Portals, news websites, video sites, shopping sites and even adult & dowload sites are all hit. Check out the graphs in my presentation!
I'm looking forward to hear your conspiracy theories, thoughts and possible explanations. Adrian Hoole & Jamie Chadwick are convinced about the correlation with the recession, Nick Meyers on the other hand believes it's: "The end of the destination web and the rise of the social web" and I'm betting on that horse too! But what do you think?
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