Who do you think is the largest content provider on the planet?

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#106806 31-Jul-2012 21:33

Curious what people think... think about it for a bit first :)

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#665208 1-Aug-2012 10:00

The internet.

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#665210 1-Aug-2012 10:03

If we reply, are you just going to tell us how we're wrong?

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#665227 1-Aug-2012 10:29

might be a question worth qualifying first :

- define largest: quantity / filesize of content? number of unique visitors? and so forth...
- define content provider : what sort of content? media files? hosting services? and so forth...

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#665228 1-Aug-2012 10:31

bradi: Curious what people think...

What people think or facts?

Facts will be hard - those kinds of numbers are closely guarded.

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#665246 1-Aug-2012 10:47

You'd probably want to qualify what you mean by content provider too. If you mean companies that host and distribute content, then Akamai probably takes the cake (or possibly Google - Youtube is big bikkies) but if you mean companies that actually produce content, it gets a whole lot harder.

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#665818 2-Aug-2012 00:10

xpd: The internet.

Made me LOL :) - best answer yet IMHO

kyanar: If we reply, are you just going to tell us how we're wrong?

YES! <g>

khull: might be a question worth qualifying first :

- define largest: quantity / filesize of content? number of unique visitors? and so forth...
- define content provider : what sort of content? media files? hosting services? and so forth...

OK...

largest : most amount of content
content provider : providing content on the Internet

fritasm: What people think or facts?

Facts will be hard - those kinds of numbers are closely guarded.

Your personal view / opinion

kyanar: You'd probably want to qualify what you mean by content provider too. If you mean companies that host and distribute content, then Akamai probably takes the cake (or possibly Google - Youtube is big bikkies) but if you mean companies that actually produce content, it gets a whole lot harder.

Like it ;) Does YouTube provide content? Does Google? Does Apple?...

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#665819 2-Aug-2012 00:12

Porn.

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#665822 2-Aug-2012 00:24

yeah most definitely the porn industry you only need to type XXX into googles search bar and count the page hits

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#665829 2-Aug-2012 01:54

I think the idea that porn makes up some vast amount of the internet is largely a myth
(it's big, for sure, but still a very small fraction of overall traffic)

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#665840 2-Aug-2012 07:11

Megaupload!

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#665871 2-Aug-2012 08:34

The pirate bay.

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#665877 2-Aug-2012 08:52

Gah, a question without an answer.
OP has gone inactive.

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#666293 2-Aug-2012 15:20

Akamai

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#672504 14-Aug-2012 21:17

You (or specifically everyone that uploads, posts, comments, likes, tweets, has a website or blog or any sort of online presence).

You are the Internet.

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#672557 14-Aug-2012 22:55

wikipedia

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