RushmoreDrive: A Success Prior to CEO Johhny Taylor's Steve Harvey Appearance?

Compete Visitor Graph for RushmoreDrive.com

I've been getting hits recently from searches for Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. and variations to a post about his appointment to CEO to IAC's then far distant Black community website.

After poking around, I realized that RushmoreDrive turned out to be that portal, a site that underwhelmed when it launched a few months back.  So I checked the Compete stats and discovered that RushmoreDrive's been outperforming a lot of related Web 2.0 efforts but hasn't really been getting much press.

Oddly enough, the searches leading folks to my Johnny Taylor post were due to Johnny Taylor's appearance on Steve Harvey which led to a sudden surge of traffic in Mr. Taylor and RushmoreDrive's general direction.

But judging from the Compete stats, never a perfect guide but an ok proxy, RushmoreDrive was already a success story, though one would want to evaluate how that traffic was generated before making too many assumptions.

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