Boards.ie No.16 inIreland

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After checking boards.ie ranking in Irish websites, boards is a high 16

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Mainly search engines ahead of it and microsoft related stuff, so boards.ie is probadly the No 1 real website after daft.ie and for anyone thats wondering, no. 87 gives a clue to what the most popular (I've said too much;) )

Vidic-is-good

No. 16 IRISH website is it? Perosnally I use BBC 606 all the time. Its a personal choice. I find boards to have alot of pendantic silly people on it. I doubt After hours is the reason for board.ie success.

Zillah

Vidic-is-good wrote:

I doubt After hours is the reason for board.ie success.

Considering its one of the most active forums, thats a silly thing to say.

Vidic-is-good

Zillah wrote:

Considering its one of the most active forums, thats a silly thing to say.

But by the same group of people mainly. Google is used by pretty much everyone so its popularity expands beyond a certain amount of users. Mkaing it in fact ',ore popular'

Scraggs

WOOOOOOOOOO UCD comes before Trinity [once again:D]

panda100

Yay-uCD beats trinity by like 15 places........go UCD!

edit:oh scraggs got to the trinity bashing before me!

Tar.Aldarion

Heh, lets get it up to one.

Hal1

To be politically correct, I'd say 'boards.ie is the most popular message board in ireland'. To be honest

Vidic-is-good

Hal1 wrote:

To be politically correct, I'd say 'boards.ie is the most popular message board in ireland'. To be honest

Most popualr IRISH message board isnt it?

Hermione*

Scraggs wrote:

WOOOOOOOOOO UCD comes before Trinity [once again:D]

Go UCD!! And boards

StephenInsane

Wikipedia is num 12? Wow, i should stop robbing college essays out of there

Hal1

Vidic-is-good wrote:

Most popualr IRISH message board isnt it?

You beg to differ?

seamus

Vidic-is-good wrote:

Most popualr IRISH message board isnt it?

Bebo isn't a message board.

hullaballoo

StephenInsane wrote:

Wikipedia is num 12? Wow, i should stop robbing college essays out of there

You should probably stop robbing college essays off it because a lot of the articles are inaccurate, not because you'll get caught.

I'm surprised to see boards so high up, it's even ahead of some Aerlingus.com. It would be interesting to look at the figures.

arbeitsscheuer

hullaballoo wrote:

You should probably stop robbing college essays off it because a lot of the articles are inaccurate, not because you'll get caught.

Concur.

I find it funny that, in cyberspace as well as in reality, UCD is set up way after Trinity, and yet somehow becomes much more popular after a short period of time! Bizarre.

Ruu_Old

boo..c'mon lets get boards up there a wee bit, at least into the top 10!

hullaballoo

Ruu wrote:

boo..c'mon lets get boards up there a wee bit, at least into the top 10!

That's a case of preaching to the converted!

seamus

There's not a whole pile of room in that 15 above boards.ie. Bebo has proven that most people don't want to post on message boards, they'd just prefer to stick up pictures of themselves and their cats and post inane messages and stupid pictures on their friends' homepages. I'm not bitter, I just absolutely cannot see the point of bebo.
I think it's just a fad that'll be gone in about 12 months, but I'm sure plenty of people said that about the Internet.
Other than that, I can't see how boards.ie would have a hope of pushing any of those other sites off their rankings.

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV

87. Nastydollars.com
nastydollars.com - Site info dirty irish lol. a porn site in the top 100!

hullaballoo

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV wrote:

87. Nastydollars.com
nastydollars.com - Site info dirty irish lol. a porn site in the top 100!

How did you know that was porn?

Jim

It was 2nd sometime last year iirc. Ryanair was 1st.

justsomebloke

hmmm, number 37 is yahoo.com.cn. I know it is a search engine so will get a lot of hits but still for the low population % it is quite high in the chart

edit. Also quite a lot of people use googles IP rather then www.google.ie as 66.249.93.104 just rolls of the tongue

lostexpectation

70. Muslim Diary http://www.muslimdiary.com eh?

this look like fun if I could read it http://6park.com/

Ruu_Old

hullaballoo wrote:

That's a case of preaching to the converted!

Ah nowt wrong with a bit of the old rallying of the troops

seamus

jsb wrote:

hmmm, number 37 is yahoo.com.cn. I know it is a search engine so will get a lot of hits but still for the low population % it is quite high in the chart

Without any prejudice, I would imagine Internet usage is much higher among Chinese and other Far Eastern immigrants than European immigrants. Mainly because it's the only conduit they have for relevent news or content in their own languages. Other foreign nationals have more ready access to relevant information.

Fighting Irish

Hal1 wrote:

To be politically correct, I'd say 'boards.ie is the most popular message board in ireland'. To be honest

its the only one

monkeyfudge

Fighting Irish wrote:

its the only one

There is easily a couple of hundred of them... even Sparky has one.

Hal1

Well its the most popular, generates more traffic, and alot of search's that I do usually return with a link to boards.ie.

Blowfish

jsb wrote:

edit. Also quite a lot of people use googles IP rather then www.google.ie as 66.249.93.104 just rolls of the tongue

It's only a guess, but that could possibly be coming from the google toolbar.

[edit] msn.com is set as IE's homepage isn't it? That could be helping that one out.

ixoy

seamus wrote:

Bebo has proven that most people don't want to post on message boards, they'd just prefer to stick up pictures of themselves and their cats and post inane messages and stupid pictures on their friends' homepages. I'm not bitter, I just absolutely cannot see the point of bebo.

Oh say it sister! I'm absolutely flummoxed as to its popularity. I just don't get it - it's some sort of alien concept. I see it in the same way as you do and think "Huh... what the hell?"

Good to see it doing well although personally I'd have thought it'd be higher...

Fighting Irish

monkeyfudge wrote:

There is easily a couple of hundred of them... even Sparky has one.

Isn't there only one other main one(a forum that covers everything), teenireland(thats only for teens though)?

link to any others

Fighting Irish

ixoy wrote:

Oh say it sister! I'm absolutely flummoxed as to its popularity. I just don't get it - it's some sort of alien concept. I see it in the same way as you do and think "Huh... what the hell?"

Good to see it doing well although personally I'd have thought it'd be higher...

Its cheaper than a text message! Keep in touch with friends?

Maybe some of you have no friends

monkeyfudge

Fighting Irish wrote:

Isn't there only one other main one(a forum that covers everything), teenireland(thats only for teens though)?

link to any others

p45rant would be another big one... and lets not forget ************* (EDIT: ha.. it's censored out...)

There are lots that would have been set up as topic specific forums, but have branched out to be more general as well.

Basq

Fighting Irish wrote:

link to any others

P45Rant.net
CreativeIreland.com

Want more?!

seamus

Fighting Irish wrote:

Its cheaper than a text message! Keep in touch with friends?

Um...whatever happened to the good 'oul days of email?

Never thought I'd use the words "'oul days" and "email" in the same sentence

JaysusMacfeck

A Chinese language site comes well before an Irish language site. Happy Days!

54. http://www.Irelandbbs.com

Mimikyu

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JaysusMacfeck

Why is it that Bebo is so popular in Ireland? It's like we've just discovered the feckin wheel. Excluding the search engines and Microsoft, Bebo is the number one site in Ireland.

Bebo ranks:

Eire: 5
UK: 25
NZ: 29
Aus: 78
USA: No rank

DOLEMAN

I'm surprised to be the first one to say this, especially at the end of page two, but...

Alexa rankings are bollox. They're based on people who have the Alexa toolbar installed. And the kind of people who have the Alexa toolbar installed are not the normal web surfer... (to put it nicely...)

Slutmonkey57b

Very true - anyone with half a brain doesn't have alexa installed. And as for bebo's popularity, it's schoolkids. And frankly, who cares what teenagers think? That said, it's only the latest in a long line of LiveJournal/Myspace imitators so it won't just disappear as a fad.

monkeyfudge

Slutmonkey57b wrote:

Very true - anyone with half a brain doesn't have alexa installed.

That means a hell of a lot of boards.ie users have less than half a brain... well that explains a lot!

spockety

So, er, haha, UCD beat TCD by fifteen places, cos the UCD users are idiotic enough to install the Alexa toolbar..

Time Magazine

It's so cute that UCD have to get proud that they top Trinity in a web search rankings .

Soon you might even win on the people wearing hoodies front .

Won't that be lovely, children? .



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Hagar

Vidic-is-good wrote:

No. 16 IRISH website is it? Perosnally I use BBC 606 all the time. Its a personal choice. I find boards to have alot of pendantic silly people on it. I doubt After hours is the reason for board.ie success.

Personally
BBC 606 is not Irish BTW
It's
a lot
After Hours
boards.ie's

You're right about the pedants.

/ Edit I forgot he's site banned

Yook

Scraggs wrote:

WOOOOOOOOOO UCD comes before Trinity [once again:D]

Well done, its finally beaten TCD at something.

faceman

Hmm these rankings seem a bit dubious. Check out number 42. Who goes "oh yes i must log onto 66.249.93.104"

Lots of foreign language sites up there too. wud love to know how the rankings were compiled.

Also who cares whether ucd or trinity is more popular? Whats wrong with u ppl????

Tar.Aldarion

Me from now on. I just got an odd look when I was typing in the address.

Fighting Irish

JaysusMacfeck wrote:

Why is it that Bebo is so popular in Ireland? It's like we've just discovered the feckin wheel. Excluding the search engines and Microsoft, Bebo is the number one site in Ireland.

Bebo ranks:

Eire: 5
UK: 25
NZ: 29
Aus: 78
USA: No rank Myspace

^

Fighting Irish

basquille wrote:

P45Rant.net
CreativeIreland.com

Want more?!

thanks, these aren't that big though?

lostexpectation

is the sites related to our foreign friends here because internet cafes all have alexa installed?