Google Gadgets Showing Usage Stats, New Google Desktop

O’Reilly reports that Google’s Gadget directory now shows stats on Google Gadgets, letting developers and everybody know how many pageviews a Gadget is getting across all venues where it is available (Google Desktop, Google Personalized Homepage, and web Gadgets). Many Gadgets are receiving in the millions of pageviews, quite impressive. They run down the pageviews of a few Gadgets, and I thought I’d check out a few others:

Date & Time: 130,290,121
Driving Directions: 38,615,797
Daily Horoscopes: 27,382,841
Wikipedia: 27,314,972
Word of the Day: 13,645,117
Dictionary.com: 12,520,786
Search YouTube: 9,515,502
Current Moon Phase: 8,870,019
PacMan V2.0: 8,114,344
NASA Image of the Day: 6,172,869
Babelfish: 5,475,360
Google Maps: 4,861,113

All the numbers are pageviews per week. These are all the Gadgets I could find in the “Popular” section with at least 4.8 million views (some “popular” Gadgets have just a few hundred. If you can find any more, let me know and I’ll add them, so we can have […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg