Scribd web traffic higher than its YC peers (based on alexa data)

1) alexa? c'mon.

2) scribd is much more search engine friendly than almost any other application i know. i find results for them all the time on random crap i search for. to note, it almost never actually helps me with the information i'm searching on, but it does get me to view their page.

3) reddit is more meta-oriented and niche. loopt is cell phone stuff. weebly is a service provider, if you don't want their service you won't hit their page. justin.tv is competing with giants. scribd has a sweet spot almost designed for traffic generation.

Loopt is a cell phone application. People don't use it by going to the web site.

I like Compete.com better than Alexa.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/scribd.com+weebly.com+reddi...

It tells a different story but the outcome is still the same. For Scribd to have higher traffic than Reddit is pretty impressive.

i hate scribd. the reason it gets traffic is deceptive search engine rankings. I refuse to ever go there again after being falsely sent to a page that did not have the information it ranked for multiple times.