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Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

I'd be interested in seeing what happens when you bucket citations by domain instead of URL. Google Analytics counts over a thousand unique referring SO pages to Cocoa Controls (http://www.cocoacontrols.com) this year alone. But, of course, most of the links back to my site are long tail.

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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Post by bcleary »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #13

I'd be interested in seeing what happens when you bucket citations by domain instead of URL. Google Analytics counts over a thousand unique referring SO pages to Cocoa Controls ( http://www.cocoacontrols.com ) this year alone. But, of course, most of the links back to my site are long tail.

Great idea, will try and look at that next.

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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Post by bcleary »

teshima wrote: post #15

How different could be the results from linked_lists tool compared with Google results for a specific topic? Are they more close to what a developer needs?

Ah, you guessed my next paper :) I have done a little informal analysis on the top 10 results from linked_lists vs the top 10 for that tag used as a Google query. They are quite different, almost totally different actually. But this is not really surprising if you think of the developers curating the links posted on Stack Overflow. I know there was an attempt a few years back to build a search engine based on the SO data set, don't know what happened to that.
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