The largest online community forum in Indonesia Kaskus re-entered the list of 1000's most popular sites in the world version of Google AdPlanner August 2010 period. Compared to July, the position of dashed Kaskus 216 ratings ratings from 755 to 539.
Based on data as of August 2010 Google AdPlanner, Kaskus world ranked 539. Site besutan three students from Indonesia in Seattle about 11 years ago was recorded 6.2 million unique visitors (users) throughout the last month with an estimated 230 million page views for pages.
With 6.2 million total unique visitors, Kaskus parallel to the foreign sites, such as computer manufacturers acer.com (ranked 533), news site time.com (538), a business news site bloomberg.com (541), and the technology news site mashable.com (542).
However, for the affairs of page views, Kaskus is far superior than the four other sites. The assumption, which opened a web page visitor Kaskus far more than the visitors four sites. When visitors are taken in any more old Kaskus site.
"Submit-term for members of the forum was quite famous Kaskus-loyal. In my opinion, a variety of information and news are very wide variations in the Forums to be the key," said Andrew Dervish, the founder and site administrator Kaskus.us, when interviewed, Jakarta, Wednesday 22nd September 2010.
Departure from the interpersonal interaction of media, now Kaskus accommodate a variety of information and news, ranging from mild to news content heavy. "In essence, all the discussion topics come from the user (user generated content). And, my friends in the Forums is commonly and happy to exchange opinions via online forums," said Andrew.
"Not to mention the buying and selling forum (FJB). Pushing Submit to earn money easily. Then, a transaction end-to-end makes this sites selling price is relatively cheaper due to no advertising costs," he said.
Just to note, Kaskus is an internet forum site was founded by three Indonesian students in the United States: Andrew Dervish, Ronald Stephen, and Budi Dharmawan in November 1999. Initially, the site was established as a media release flavor miss the Indonesian students overseas.
Later, the site has expanded to become the biggest online community in Indonesia, with total users reached more than two million. Approximately 227 million post made on this forum.