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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Video/porn, dating sites and TechCrunch grew last year

"With 2008 now more than two weeks old, it's a great time to look back at last year and see how the web has changed. What sites experienced a surge of traffic in 2007? Has anyone fallen off the map? We compared the top 1000 sites in December 2007 with those in December of the previous year to find out," says the Compete blog.

A couple of video porn sites are doing well -- Redtube and Youporn -- along with Veoh. The dating sites, iamfreetonight.com and datehookup.com, also showed huge growth. TechCrunch, the tech blog, grew by 3,240%, which is amazing.

And although Facebook got most of the headlines in 2007, it's interesting to see that LinkedIn grew by 1,048% and the smaller Cafemom by 2,320%.

Some big-hitters declined, including Nextag, Mcafee, Netscape, Xanga and Vonage.

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