Rankings are the Future of Mobile Search
Did you know that Ranker is one of the top 100 web destinations for mobile per Quantcast, ahead of household names like The Onion and People magazine? We are ranked #520 in the non-mobile world. Why...
View ArticleExamining Regional Voting Differences with Ranker’s Polling Widget
Ranker has a new program where we offer a polling widget to partner sites who want the engagement of a poll in list format (as opposed to the standard radio button poll). Currently, sites that use our...
View ArticleHow Netflix’s AltGenre Movie Grammar Illustrates the Future of Search...
I recently got sent this Atlantic article on how Netflix reverse engineered Hollywood by a few contacts, and it happens to mirror my long term vision for how Ranker’s data fits into the future of...
View ArticleRanker’s Rankings API Now in Beta
Increasingly, people are looking for specific answers to questions as opposed to webpages that happen to match the text they type into a search engine. For example, if you search for the capital of...
View ArticleWorld Cup 2014 Predictions
An octopus called Paul was one of the media stars of the 2010 soccer world cup. Paul correctly predicted 11 out of 13 matches, including the final in which Spain defeated the Netherlands. The 2014...
View ArticleCan Colbert bring young Breaking Bad Fans to The Late Show?
I have to admit that I thought it was a joke at first when I heard the news that Stephen Colbert is leaving The Colbert Report and is going to host the Late Show, currently hosted by David Letterman....
View ArticleFrom Ranker Labs: A Deeper Look at the Worst Movies List
Perhaps you didn’t know Ranker had a whole large laboratory full of scientists in neatly pressed white coats doing crazy, some might even say Willy Wonka-esque experiments. We try to keep that sort of...
View ArticleRanky Goes to Washington?
Something pretty cool happened last week here at Ranker, and it had nothing to do with the season premiere of the “Big Bang Theory”, which we’re also really excited about. Cincinnati’s number one...
View ArticleCharacteristics of People who are less Afraid of Ebola
Ebola is everywhere in the news these days, even as Ebola trails other causes of death by wide margins. Clearly the risks are great, so some amount of fear is certainly justified, but many have taken...
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