Competition is good. It spurs me on. It prevents me from becoming complacent. On the flip side, it also causes me to google obsessively and check out the trends of competitors at Alexa, among other things. As if that wasn’t bad enough, I discovered Compete, a tool that allows comparison of traffic for 3 to 5 domains. The man behind this company is Bill Gross who is also the founder GoTo which later became Overture and as we all know was acquired by Yahoo. So I reckon that the tool has to be decent.

Compete will surely ramp up my obsessiveness as I found it to be quite useful even though the source, relevancy and accuracy of the data for the traffic numbers can be disputed. I think it was Mark Twain who said “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics.” Nevertheless, Compete claims that their data comes primarily from US Internet users but that didn’t stop me from comparing three of Singapore’s meta blogs (using the term ‘meta blog’ loosely here): Tomorrow.Sg, Ping.Sg and BloggerSG. The comparison can be seen as the Singaporean meta blogs’ popularity in the US and as you can see from the diagram below, Tomorrow.Sg wins hands down.

Compete Stats for Tomorrow.Sg, Ping.Sg and BloggersSG