Google and MSN have been going back and forth
for the #2 spot in the Alexa Rankings for the last 8 months or so.
Google had been on track to displace MSN as the second most popular
site on the Web (behind Yahoo) and has in fact done so briefly and
repeatedly only to be beaten back by MSN. But now it is beginning to
look like Google is fading.
What is more interesting though, is that later in the article the analysis is that ALL major portals are losing out to the little guys. Having come from the Network Insight conference today where someone in the audience for one of the sessions I attended was saying that blogs were irrelevant - this is really interesting news.
Here is what the article says about the little guys:
For years the news has been about the
consolidation of Web traffic in so few hands. Now the news appears to
be that the big players are losing their grip and the little guys are
taking a bigger piece of the pie.
