Observed arrival · 2026-09-14
LinkCensus and the link neighborhoods around the web
LinkCensus maps the sites connected to a domain through shared linking patterns, using dated Common Crawl data rather than traffic estimates.
Field notes
The proposed service resolves a domain against a selected Common Crawl host graph, ranks nearby sites by shared linking structure, and attaches the linkers that support each relationship. Its first described edition covers November 2025 through January 2026 and retains hosts with at least eight links, while the searchable subset is planned at 20.0 million hosts. The homepage shows an illustrative report with TLDs, shared-linker counts, and similarity percentages, but not a demonstrated live lookup.
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