So Bing.com is used more in Ireland over Boards. How?!?!?!

Niall558

http://www.similarweb.com/country/ireland

Bing is ranked #24 and Boards.ie is #36. How did this even happen?

I was going to say that I'm surprised Pornhub is used more than boards too but that would be a lie..

brandon_flowers

IE default search engine for many I would guess.

Pushtrak

I'm surprised Adverts is more popular than boards. I thought it primarily would be boards people who use adverts.

Niall558

Same as myself! It's an interesting list though.

Muise...

only 2 places ahead of independent.ie - ouch.

Internet Explorer users I'd assume. Default search engine as well as MSN.com being the default homepage in IE.

MJ23

Ha ha xhamster is number 26. Dirty feckers.

wexie

Who still uses Yahoo?

Sparks43

Google.pl in 15th

Thought all the poles fecked off

wexie

MJ23 wrote: »

Ha ha xhamster is number 26. Dirty feckers.

no. 12 in Germany

hansfrei

Sparks43 wrote: »

Google.pl in 15th

Thought all the poles fecked off

Cheap fights and handy dole money means they only have to be here once a week.



Weren't there loads of torrent sitez on these lists years ago??

Peregrine

IE default and maybe Windows Phones.

I actually find that list hard to believe. Surely there are more Pornhub viewers than XHamster?

Specialun

Jeez we do watch alot of porn dont we

Fred Swanson

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syklops

Specialun wrote: »

Jeez we do watch alot of porn dont we

Escort Ireland is ahead of Paddy Power. So we don't just watch a lot...

Pushtrak

Karsini wrote: »

Internet Explorer users I'd assume. Default search engine as well as MSN.com being the default homepage in IE.

Not far beyond the bloody stone age.

FouxDaFaFa

Ask.com is #23?

Wtf?

My guess is clueless people with toolbar crapware. Ask is bundled with so many things nowadays.

Trying to change attitudes is a serious challenge. The amount of people who enter URLs into Google/Bing search boxes is unreal. They seem to act as if Google is the internet.

Wibbs

I seem to remember Boards being ranked higher than RTE a couple of years back or did I get that wrong?

Plus how do you measure such a thing? EG Boards is gonna be much higher ranking in personal interactivity than a site like google for example.

losthorizon

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

Ask.com is #23?

Wtf?

Dont ask us! Ask Jeeves or Ask.Com

Nodin

Niall558 wrote: »

http://www.similarweb.com/country/ireland

Bing is ranked #24 and Boards.ie is #36. How did this even happen?

I was going to say that I'm surprised Pornhub is used more than boards too but that would be a lie..

More popular than the Indo and Mail though.



Not sure if that's good, now I think about it.

seenitall

wexie wrote: »

Who still uses Yahoo?

I do.

Ya hoo.

funt cucker

We have an addiction to porn over here by the looks of it.

Mr. CooL ICE

There are certain 'adult' sites I have never heard of until I saw that list*




*this was typed with one hand

P_1

Hmm going by that list it seems that Bet365 are Ireland's online bookie of choice.

also reddit finds itself sandwiched between ask.fm and a porno site

padd b1975

A lot of boards.ie users seem to have an inflated sense of this site's relevance in Irish society.
Most people look at me in a state of bewilderment whenever I bring it up in conversation.


After Hours is another few notches higher again in the smugness department.

AlanS181824

I love the way Google.pl is on the list. Also, there's quite a lot of porn on there... Hmm....

hfallada

I seriously question how accurate that ranking is. There is about 10,000 brazilians in Ireland. But yet google.br is number 84. But yet there is no sites listed for all the Czech , Romanians and Chinese and there is tons of them here

AlanS181824

Looking through other countries it's very interesting to see. Saudi Arabians seem to enjoy their porn and torrenting for example! Also interesting that Google.com.br is popular in Ireland too! Didn't know there were many Brasillians here.

newmug

padd b1975 wrote: »

A lot of boards.ie users seem to have an inflated sense of this site's relevance in Irish society.
Most people look at me in a state of bewilderment whenever I bring it up in conversation.


After Hours is another few notches higher again in the smugness department.

Exactly. For some reason, a lot of Boardsies seem to think that Boards is the official "voice" of Ireland.

In reality, its a safe haven for the more, shall we say, alternative, voices of Irish people.

withless

McQuaid needs to rise from his tomb and start cutting some cables. This country is a disgrace.

Pushtrak

withless wrote: »

McQuaid needs to rise from his tomb and start cutting some cables. This country is a disgrace.

Care to elaborate?

returnNull

LordChessington wrote: »

*this was typed with one hand

while squinting:pac:

Bing is probably up there too because a lot of people's work computers would have no alternative other than IE for internet.

wexie

Deleted User wrote: »

Bing is probably up there too because a lot of people's work computers would have no alternative other than IE for internet.

Can still use Google with IE, or, if you really wanted Yahoo

kwestfan08

Can't over Escort Ireland being higher than Ryanair tbh.

Howard Juneau

AlanS181824 wrote: »

Looking through other countries it's very interesting to see. Saudi Arabians seem to enjoy their porn and torrenting for example! Also interesting that Google.com.br is popular in Ireland too! Didn't know there were many Brasillians here.

You'd be surprised! The population of Gort was estimated at one point to be almost 1/3 Brazilian

Guy:Incognito

Howard Juneau wrote: »

You'd be surprised! The population of Gort was estimated at one point to be almost 1/3 Brazilian

So theres 7 brazilians in gort then?

wexie

Howard Juneau wrote: »

You'd be surprised! The population of Gort was estimated at one point to be almost 1/3 Brazilian

genetically or mathematically?

Fred Swanson

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Wibbs

newmug wrote: »

Exactly. For some reason, a lot of Boardsies seem to think that Boards is the official "voice" of Ireland.

While the demographics are going to be somewhat skewed(though less so as time goes on. There are far more women here than compared to a few years ago), in certain areas it's quite predictive of Irelands trends. Politics for example. Polls here tend to mirror election results remarkably well. And that's in spite of the demographic that would have more say Sinn Fein supporters than the general.

newmug

Wibbs wrote: »

While the demographics are going to be somewhat skewed(though less so as time goes on. There are far more women here than compared to a few years ago), in certain areas it's quite predictive of Irelands trends. Politics for example. Polls here tend to mirror election results remarkably well. And that's in spite of the demographic that would have more say Sinn Fein supporters than the general.

Coincidence my friend. Boards is as far removed from real Irish life as Friends is from real American life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY54fnWQ-48

Skip to the bit at 1:50. A Boardsie versus a real Irish person!

questionmark?

How have I never even heard of XHamster Not that I would view such vile sites :cool:

Howard Juneau

questionmark? wrote: »

How have I never even heard of XHamster Not that I would view such vile sites :cool:

You haven't lived until you've seen a 55yo Bulgarian granny asking for money to show you her droopy tattas.......er......so I've been told!

stefan idiot jones

returnNull wrote: »

while squinting:pac:

Turning Japenese ?

funt cucker

Howard Juneau wrote: »

You haven't lived until you've seen a 55yo Bulgarian granny asking for money to show you her droopy tattas.......er......so I've been told!

You're a sick fecker.

Fred Swanson

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hullaballoo

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Fairly off the mark in 2011 for the generals as well.

Boards.ie has slipped down the list in the past few years but it's bucking the trend for bulletin board sites. That said, I was talking to a friend of mine who's 23 or so and I mentioned this site to her and her reaction was to the effect that only grannies use this site. I had to correct her inasmuch as the gender description but couldn't argue the point any farther.

Here's the result of the boards.ie poll for the 2011 general election that I posted on FB in advance of the elections:

hullaballoo wrote:

Election prediction:*

FG: 63 seats;
Lab: 46 seats;
SF: 26 seats;
Indep/Other**: 18 seats;
Green: 5 seats;
PbP: 3 seats;
FF: 3 seats;
SP: 2 seats.

No overall majority. Fine Gael-led coalition. SF in lead opposition.

*The quanitative statistical margin of error on raw data is only approx. +/- 0.69%. Qualitively, the demographic polled is unlikely to be representative of the voting population. There was no way to eliminate any disenfranchised persons from the poll.

**Includes South Kerry Independent Alliance (1 seat) and Workers and Unemployed Action Group (1 seat).

syklops

hfallada wrote: »

I seriously question how accurate that ranking is. There is about 10,000 brazilians in Ireland. But yet google.br is number 84. But yet there is no sites listed for all the Czech , Romanians and Chinese and there is tons of them here

There is not a lot of Czechs here. And when you say Romanian, do you mean Roma? Romanians are very internet savvy. The Roma are not. There are a lot of Roma here, there are not a lot of Romanians.

JustAddWater

Ask.com? Really?

I'd like to ask them how they pulled that one off tbh. Brutal site. Don't know anyone who uses it. Usually installed as part of the ask.com toolbar when installing shyteware (auto ticked) ... Hey, I just answered my own question!

syklops

Howard Juneau wrote: »

You haven't lived until you've seen a 55yo Bulgarian granny asking for money to show you her droopy tattas.......er......so I've been told!

You're hanging out in the wrong section. X-Hamster is great!