Fw: [Mycroft] [Statistics] January 2004, Week 2 (full week)

[Matthew A. McGuigan]

Alan Bramley wrote:

> Ricky wrote:
>
>> Then, I've never said that vivisimo itself brought us these visitors. 
>> There must be something else, but I cannot figure out why Monday and 
>> Tuesday don't show any relevant referrer for that. Maybe it's a blog 
>> where the link was no URL, so people would have to copy it and paste 
>> it in the address bar. If this is so, then it must be a veeeery 
>> popular blog and a very interesting article too...
>
>
> Well, how they are finding Mycroft has got me puzzled. There is no 
> mention of Mycroft on Vivisimo's site. Their Press Page links to the 
> CNN article that Mat mentioned but again this does not mention us. 
> I've just spent an hour searching blogs with Feedster, Daypop etc., 
> and whist there is plenty of chatter about the CNN article (typically 
> "...better than Google") there is not a single mention which links 
> Mycroft with Vivisimo.
>
> So, I'm coming to the conclusion it's not from a blog so possibly it's 
> from some forum or news article? Do the IP's indicate a single country 
> or is it global?
>
> Alan
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Alan,

Slashdot has a large amount of Mozilla users that are already familiar 
with Mycroft.  Slashdotters likely asked Vivisimo to add the plugin to 
their site.  It wasn't on their site that day and CNN users would have 
asked for a Netscape plugin if anything. 

Slashdot is known for knocking web server off the net when they link to 
them.  A term they call Slashdotting. 

http://slashdot.org/faq/suggestions.shtml#su910

I'm among those statistics, as I was checking to see if we had the 
plugin after reading the story.  The slashdot article is likely the 
source of much of the traffic.

Regards,

mat