Nmap team releases 5 gigapixel favicon map

Just a few icons away from news.ycombinator.com is incest-dream.com - don't go there! There are plenty of other porn sites surrounding the Hacker News favicon, call me naive, but I didn't think there was that much porn out there on the interwebs these days. Someone told me it was hard to monetize because you cannot compete with free. Plus you don't get a screen full of pop-ups of porn, 1998 style. Seems I will have to re-evaluate what the internet is used for.

thinkpad20• 13 years ago

I didn't think there was that much porn out there on the interwebs these days

...seriously?

batmansbelt• 13 years ago

Seems I will have to re-evaluate what the internet is used for.

Enjoy your "evaluating."

krapp• 13 years ago

The internet is for porn, and everything else amounts to a rounding error.

lsc2• 13 years ago

Actually, this is not as true as it used to be[1] - streaming video of the regular kind is a really big deal.

[1]http://www.tomsguide.com/us/netflix-internet-bandwidth-media...

wdr1• 13 years ago

This remains as true as it ever was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo

x0054• 13 years ago

How did some of these websites end up so big:

http://mywebsearch.com/ <- dead site http://www.babylon.com/ http://www.conduit.com/

Above is just a sample of sites which have very large logos, and I think they should not, because they are either dead, or can't be possibly as popular as say, the BBC site.

Other then that, it looks like it's time to start learning Mandarin, from the looks of it it's quickly becoming the number 2 language on the web. I got English (1) and Russian (3) covered :)

txttran• 13 years ago

I believe conduit produces one of those adware toolbar plugins that get installed when you install utorrent, etc. It will also attempt to change your browser home page as well. I'm assuming that very few hits to conduit.com are actually intentional.

ktsmith• 13 years ago

Yup, conduit is adware.

intangible• 13 years ago

fc2.com is almost as big as pinterest? Yeah, not sure about the accuracy here.

barrkel• 13 years ago

fc2, from the times I've come across it, feels like it's somewhere between blogspot and tumblr in size. I don't know how big pinterest is compared to those two, but fc2 feels big.

kalleboo• 13 years ago

fc2.com is really massive in Japan, it shows up in my (japanese language) google search with a very high frequency. And since it's Alexa data we're talking about here, it probably makes a difference that IE usage is still relatively high in Japan.

ineedtosleep• 13 years ago

Some of the "Top Losers" items don't make sense:

* YahooJapan: (down arrow) 1.5 to 3.5%

* Microsoft: (down arrow) 1.2 to 3.4%

* LiveJasmin: (down arrow) 1.2 to 2.0%

kbenson• 13 years ago

(points changed) to (new percentage).

e.g. 1.5 to 3.5% means it dropped 1.5% from 5.0% to 3.5%

NotUncivil• 13 years ago

Can you calculate the average of those icons? I wonder if there is a pattern.

AlexanderDhoore• 13 years ago

Ah Babylon.com, how I hate you so. May your stupid toolbar burn in hell.

grannyg00se• 13 years ago

It would be great to see this as an animation showing growth from say...the day google went live to present.

NAFV_P• 13 years ago

If you ever find yourself complaining about the amount of time wasted on HN, just look at all those millions of hours wasted on facebook, then write some bloody Python.

Nmap team releases 5 gigapixel favicon map

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