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7. Of the top twenty most trafficked sites (at MediaMetrix) which do you think will still be in the top twenty in 2010?

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Support for sites varied widely, but only Amazon.com (63%), AOL.com (57%), Microsoft.com (58%) and Yahoo.com (74%) were supported by more than half the respondents. Those with the least chance of surviving were Angelfire.com (3%), Looksmart.com (3%) and Passport.com (5%).

The largest differences between British and American views were AOL.com (39% UK, 79% USA), which is understandable given the differences between the two ISP markets, and Real.com (10% UK, 31% USA). Americans seemed slightly more optimistic about the chances of sites surviving to 2010's top twenty, giving 5.4 votes out of twenty compared to 4.8 for those in the UK.

Question 8 asked respondents to name up to ten other sites they thought would be in the top twenty in 2010. Many people didn't give any answers for this open-ended question, and there is little to be gleaned from the information (for the full list see the Appendix). However, two sites were mentioned more than twice: the BBC (7 nominations) and Google (4). All but one of the BBC's nominations came from the UK (18% of total UK respondents, or 50% of those who gave answers for this question).

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