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5 points·smountcastle··6 comments

That was, without a doubt, the most inefficient, obtrusive, annoying way to display a simple table/spreadsheet I have ever experienced. I was so annoyed by all the crap on the screen that I couldn't bring myself to read the list itself.

As a tripadvisor/expedia employee, the fact that both companies appear there makes me doubt the rigor of the methodology behind this list. And hotels.com (also wholly owned by EXPE) adds to that doubt. And both eBay and Paypal too.

Agreed. And there is serious apples to oranges comparison here. For example, why is iTunes on the list? If one is including any business that transacts on the web, then Geico (over $1 billion last year) and many more should also be on the list.

1) Good idea for linkbait -- intrinsically interesting, well-targeted to interests in a link-rich community, high shareability factor.

2) Mediocre execution in terms of content. No sources or methodology cited, numbers not credible. This works against my propensity to pass it on to other people.

3) This demo should probably cause one to wonder "Why are our customers waiting 10+ seconds to consume textual content which weighs less than a kilobyte and what can we do to fix this?" Remember: on the Internet, if it's not instant, it's slow.

This has 5 points right now. I can see who submitted it. What I'm trying to understand is how it got four other votes.

what about Monster, doing 1.3 bn in sales a year?

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