2) scribd is much more search engine friendly than almost any other application i know. i find results for them all the time on random crap i search for. to note, it almost never actually helps me with the information i'm searching on, but it does get me to view their page.
3) reddit is more meta-oriented and niche. loopt is cell phone stuff. weebly is a service provider, if you don't want their service you won't hit their page. justin.tv is competing with giants. scribd has a sweet spot almost designed for traffic generation.
I couldn't think of a 4th YC startup with traffic close to scribd's. We hear about loopt a lot, so I just thought I would add it for comparison.
This wasn't intended to be a comparison of the popularity of the services. I posted the link because I hadn't before realized how large scribd's web presence is.
Interesting about Twitter going from 500 to 1,900 on Alexa. It's compete ranking and now its most current alexa ranking match up, as compete ranks it 2K.
Though were sure to see it's ranking go back up to 500 and beyond. It's the next huge thing, just like MySpace and Facebook!
i hate scribd. the reason it gets traffic is deceptive search engine rankings. I refuse to ever go there again after being falsely sent to a page that did not have the information it ranked for multiple times.
2) scribd is much more search engine friendly than almost any other application i know. i find results for them all the time on random crap i search for. to note, it almost never actually helps me with the information i'm searching on, but it does get me to view their page.
3) reddit is more meta-oriented and niche. loopt is cell phone stuff. weebly is a service provider, if you don't want their service you won't hit their page. justin.tv is competing with giants. scribd has a sweet spot almost designed for traffic generation.