engadget.com Vs theverge.com
You might think its ridiculous to compare a Mar 2004 (engadget.com) website to a Oct 2011 (theverge.com) website, but I am going to do it anyways.
engadget.com "was" my daily dose of gadget / tech news. I even launched my own gadget news portel at enggresources.com/patrika but couldn't maintain it, writing is a time taking job, I tell ya! Anyways, when Aol bought engadget.com, I wasn't sure if they are gonna influence the articles, but after a while it started publishing some crap articles around endorsements, which were not really news. After a while, Joshua left engadget.com and I am pretty sure it was the same reason I sighted. After him, engadget really pissed me with really crap articles. Tim stevens, the new editor-in-chief wasn't doing his job. My daily dose was gone! I was scared and uninformed.
One week before, I stumbled across theverge.com, man, what a site design it was. I mean information is so organized and the highlights are readily accessible, I just loved it! and to my surprise it was Joshua who launched it. I was dazzled and amazed, not just by the quality and amount of information, but also by the thought of getting "that" tech news daily dose again. Thanks so much guys! I love you.. I watch all your vergecast and shows. They are awesome!
So.. here I am comparing the site ranking between these two website, as a web designer and "verger", this is my right and duty ;)
Here is the graph published at google trends if you compare these two:
Not even close, right? but I am sure many verger can spot the declining traffic at engadget after theverge was launched. The thing to note is that, theverge was actually launched by the name thisismynext.com on Jan 2011 which was then changed to theverge.com, just saying!
To end this, I hope theverge overtakes the gadget news category and provide free quality information to everyone. Thanks again!