Byte Ranks 12th What did I learn? I'll admit I was surprised (and pleased) to see Byte, which ceased publication last May and has been stagnant online since then, remains 12th on that list of 585 sites. That LinuxWorld ranks third (53,294) behind Cnet (95,619), and ZDNet (83,222) is certainly an eye-opener. On balance, the picture that emerged seems a credible representation of Web mindshare for computer-magazine-related sites.
Caveat: This is only the set of sites that were in the selected Yahoo category subtree, and it is only AltaVista's view of their mindshare. It's not a complete or perfect view -- nothing on the Web is -- but it seems more than good enough to be useful.
Of course, mindshare isn't everything. Having all these links in one place led me to explore a lot of interesting but lesser-known sites I'd never known about, because I'd never fully plumbed that region of Yahoo.
In this volume of Best of BYTE, we explore the emergence of some heuristic algorithms. Although we have only scratched the surface of this intriguing subject, we hope we've suggested the potential of the synthesis of heuristics and algorithms.
Caveat: This is only the set of sites that were in the selected Yahoo category subtree, and it is only AltaVista's view of their mindshare. It's not a complete or perfect view -- nothing on the Web is -- but it seems more than good enough to be useful.
