Neuroscience is a field of science that is quickly becoming a favorite topic among the internet surfers. Internet searches for neuroscience news and neuroscience books have increased dramatically over the past few months according to search engine traffic statistics from some of the leading neuroscience websites on the net.
With many of the social networking and bookmarking websites such as Stumble Upon, del.icio.us, Digg and Myspace allowing friends to browse through others' favorite websites and favorite news from around the internet, neuroscience websites are benefiting heavily from a few well informed internet surfers.
According to Neuroscience News, their webmasters have noticed over a 300% increase in traffic over the past two months thanks to social networking and bookmarking sources such as StumbleUpon and del.icio.us. According to Neuroscience News, a few Stumblers, a term given to users of the StumbleUpon service, first added the Neuroscience News homepage as a favorite website and the traffic began to flow. You can visit the StumbleUpon page for Neuroscience News listed here if you would like to join as well. http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.neurosciencenews.com
Specific news websites such as Neuroscience News haven't benefited from enormous amounts of traffic mainly due to their seemingly small niche areas of interest. Not many of us know a neuroscientist, or a brain surgeon, so you can probably see why the niche wasn't bringing in tons of traffic. Another reason why the traffic may have been a bit slow for such research news websites is that most people on the internet that would love to learn more about brain research, memory research and brain injuries just didn't know where to look, or didn't realize they could gather their news from special research news websites. Thanks to social networking websites such as Stumble Upon and Digg, neuroscience research, science articles and the such are becoming quite popular and bringing traffic to the great websites that have been bringing the news through thick and thin to loyal visitors over the years.
It is great to see websites that dedicate their time to researching specific topics such as neuroscience research, memory and learning stories, neuroscience lab breakthroughs and other niche science areas gaining the traffic they deserve. It is also great finding an article about how the brain stores memories on your internet buddies favorite stories list instead of the typical video of a fat kid dancing.
This holiday season we all have to give thanks to social networking websites such as Stumble Upon and Digg as well as the science news websites such as Neuroscience News that are finally allowing the internet surfers interested in more than a funny website about hamsters or another graphic artist trying to impress us with his most recent PhotoShop disaster, to find intellectually stimulating web pages and research news.
If you haven't visited StumbleUpon ( http://www.stumbleupon.com ), del.icio.us ( http://del.icio.us ), Digg ( http://www.digg.com ) and Neuroscience News (http://www.neurosciencenews.com ), please stop by their websites and join up to show your support of an intelligent internet push for us all.
Victoria Powell has worked on many educational websites such as Neuroscience News and is pleased to see the science educational websites getting more attention on the internet.
