Recently, I suddenly thought of summarizing some awesome websites that were once very popular and are now almost disappearing. Because I started working on the Internet in 2005, I don’t know much about the big websites that disappeared before 2005, so I summarized all the things that were still very good in 2005.
The following data is obtained from the Chinese website rankings summarized by many previous netizens. The list ranges from Chinese websites that were once within the TOP100 Chinese websites and are now ranked above 10,000 by ALEXA.
Let’s take a look at the website list first, and then I’ll give you a brief website introduction.
1:3721, Yisou and Zhongsou (search type)
3721
3721 Network Real Name, a search service website that once rivaled Baidu. Nowadays, you can still see the bottom of some corporate websites, and the real network name of the website is displayed. Later, it was merged by Yahoo China, and 3721 Assistant was also renamed Yahoo Assistant. Many people think that 3721's rapid decline in browser address bar market share is mainly due to 360 Security Guard. In fact, this is not the case. 3721’s biggest natural enemy is Tencent SOSO. The address bar toolbar is mainly installed through software bundles. Who can compete with Tencent's client in this area? I believe many friends were prompted to install the SOSO plug-in when installing Tencent QQ. Later, 3721 was revised into a website navigation. Recently, it was directly transferred to Yahoo China. This brand is completely useless, which is a pity.
One search
Let’s talk about “Yisou”. This is a search product launched by Zhou Hongyi after he settled in Yahoo China. The purpose is to compete with Baidu. I remember that the best product of Yisou at that time was MP3 search, and the number of visits once exceeded Baidu MP3. Unfortunately, after it was transferred to Jack Ma, this website was also discontinued. 3721 and Yisou were among the top 10 websites in China at their peak, and ALEXA ranked among the top 50 in the world. Now they are all below the 10,000th place, which is very sad.
Zhongsou
Because the three are all for search, I will talk about them together. Zhongsou was also very good in 2005-06. At that time, you could still see advertisements from Zhongsou in the Beijing subway. Because of the vigorous promotion, it also has a certain number of users. When the website was at its peak, ALEXA ranked among the top 100 in the world. It's just that the quality of the website's products is destined to fail to develop. Without promotion, the traffic will soon drop. Now it is a personal portal, hoping that a new dawn will emerge.
2: Bora, Tieyi (aggregation type)
These two websites were at their best in 2006 and 2007. At that time, there were four well-known aggregation websites in China. They are Qihu.com, Daqi.com, Tieyi, which does forum aggregation, and Bora, which does blog aggregation. I believe that many webmasters at that time had done advertising alliances with these four websites. Because the alliances provided traffic, these websites ranked very high at that time.
Qihoo.com later transformed into an experience website, and now only a search box is left. All manpower has been invested in 360 Security Guard, and Daqi.com has made some progress by relying on word-of-mouth marketing. Its influence in the industry and website popularity are both good. Bora and Tieyi are obviously running out of stamina. Although their websites still exist, there is little news about them in the industry. The website's popularity also plummeted. From being ranked in the hundreds of ALEXAs at the beginning, to now being ranked among the top 40,000.
3: UUME Oupou Entertainment Woxiu Network Channel 9 Amber Network (Video Category)
In 2006, due to the success of YouTube, domestic video websites became very popular. A large number of video websites have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. The five companies UUME and Oupou Entertainment came out during that period. The end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007 were a period of subversion for video websites. At that time, there were about 15 domestic video websites ranked among the top 1,000 ALEXA websites.
At that time, because I was responsible for the promotion of video search on a certain website, I happened to be dealing with several of the above websites, and we all cooperated on traffic. There were too many video websites at that time, but the industry was destined to only have a few left. Therefore, among the 15 popular video websites at that time, apart from Youku, Tudou, and Ku6, a few still survived. The rest were either transformed or simply closed. The video industry can be said to be bloody. Not to mention video sharing websites, there are also several video search websites in the past few years, but now the only ones that can be seen are Baidu Video Search and Google Video Search.
4: Martial Arts Ranking, Entertainment Base (Others)
The Wulin Ranking was a statistical tool I used to like to use. Unfortunately, it was suddenly announced that the website would be closed and the service would cease. When it was closed, I also wrote an article in memory of the Wulin Ranking, "In memory of the "Wulin Ranking Statistics", have a good journey!" Friends who are interested can read it.
I am not very familiar with the website Entertainment Base. I remember logging in once before. It seemed to be full of entertainment gossip content. The website art was very ugly and looked like a personal website. I don’t understand why it has such a high ranking and traffic.
That’s it for today’s sharing. It’s really emotional to look at the familiar websites above. It makes people see the cruelty of competition on the Internet. The Internet industry is like this. Miracles like becoming billionaires can happen here overnight, but more websites have invested hundreds or even thousands of W in it, and none of them have made a splash.
Mou Changqing (mcq0544) stayed
2009.7.8
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