Nmap team releases 5 gigapixel favicon map

Just a few icons away from news.ycombinator.com is incest-dream.com - don't go there! There are plenty of other porn sites surrounding the Hacker News favicon, call me naive, but I didn't think there was that much porn out there on the interwebs these days. Someone told me it was hard to monetize because you cannot compete with free. Plus you don't get a screen full of pop-ups of porn, 1998 style. Seems I will have to re-evaluate what the internet is used for.

Re: Nmap team releases 5 gigapixel favicon map

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Post by x0054 » Wed, Dec 18, 2013, 9:26 PM UTC

How did some of these websites end up so big:

http://mywebsearch.com/ http://www.babylon.com/ http://www.conduit.com/

Above is just a sample of sites which have very large logos, and I think they should not, because they are either dead, or can't be possibly as popular as say, the BBC site.

Other then that, it looks like it's time to start learning Mandarin, from the looks of it it's quickly becoming the number 2 language on the web. I got English (1) and Russian (3) covered :)

Re: Nmap team releases 5 gigapixel favicon map

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Post by yan » Wed, Dec 18, 2013, 9:29 PM UTC

Raphael wrote: post #2

Map? What determines the positions?

Looks like the color determines the position, and traffic the size.

Re: Nmap team releases 5 gigapixel favicon map

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Post by MrZongle2 » Wed, Dec 18, 2013, 9:29 PM UTC

alextingle wrote: post #3

Wow. How the mighty are fallen. Slashdot: http://nmap.org/favicon/?search=slashdot.org

I think that's just further proof that you cannot afford to go on autopilot once you've become successful.

Re: Nmap team releases 5 gigapixel favicon map

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Post by thinkpad20 » Wed, Dec 18, 2013, 9:39 PM UTC

Theodores wrote: post #5

OMG! The porn! Just a few icons away from news.ycombinator.com is incest-dream.com - don't go there! There are plenty of other porn sites surrounding the Hacker News favicon, call me naive, but I didn't think there was that much porn out there on the interwebs these days. Someone told me it was hard to monetize because you cannot compete with free. Plus you don't get a screen full of pop-ups of porn, 1998 style. Seem…

> I didn't think there was that much porn out there on the interwebs these days

...seriously?

Re: Nmap team releases 5 gigapixel favicon map

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Post by txttran » Wed, Dec 18, 2013, 9:43 PM UTC

x0054 wrote: post #6

How did some of these websites end up so big: http://mywebsearch.com/ http://www.babylon.com/ http://www.conduit.com/ Above is just a sample of sites which have very large logos, and I think they should not, because they are either dead, or can't be possibly as popular as say, the BBC site. Other then that, it looks like it's time to start learning Mandarin, from the looks of it it's quickly becoming the number 2 lan…

I believe conduit produces one of those adware toolbar plugins that get installed when you install utorrent, etc. It will also attempt to change your browser home page as well. I'm assuming that very few hits to conduit.com are actually intentional.