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Page ranking by google for the term "fonts" reveals that most big commercial font foundries are doing it all wrong by using convoluted tree structures and internal URLs that change at least once a year. The top 30 sites (April 2004) include mostly free font archives (1001freefonts (1), Fontsnthings (4), Acid Fonts (5), 1001fonts (6), Fontfreak (8), Fontalicious (10), Abstract Fonts (11), 007 fonts (13), Cool Archive (16), DaFONT (17), PCFonts (20), Cool Fonts (21), Fontastic (27), ABC Giant (28), Fontfile (29)), shareware/freeware foundries (Larabie (2), Divide by zero (14)), type info sites (SIL.org (12), yours truly (26), Yamada (30)), and the odd commercial foundry/vendor (Agfa (3), Microsoft (7), Chank (9), MyFonts (15), Linotype (18), PhilsFonts (19), Emigre (22), Adobe (24), Blambot (25)).

Checked again in May 2008, and the free font archives have moved up dramatically (Dafont (17 -> 1), 1001freefonts (1 -> 3), Urbanfonts (4), Abstract Fonts (11 -> 5), Smashing Magazine (6), Simplythebest Free Fonts (7), 1001fonts (6 -> 8), FontFreak (8 -> 10), Acid Fonts (5 -> 11), Highfonts (12), creamundo (13), Cooltext (16), Fontstock (17), Fontreactor (20), WebFXMall (21), PC Fonts (20 -> 23), Searchfreefonts (25), Actionfonts (27), Font Garden (29), Absolute Fonts Archive (30)). Shareware/freeware foundries basically vanished. International free font places kept up (SIL (12 -> 18), Yamada Language Center (30 -> 22)). Font and font software information sites crept up (w3.org (9), Wikipedia.org (14), Mozilla.org (15), w3schools.com (28)). Commercial vendors took a beating: only Fonts.Com/Monotype (2) and Larabiefonts (24) crack the top 30, but the link page Font Pool (26), which links to commercial foundries should be added to this category. Identifont is at 35, MyFonts at 37, Microsoft in position 38, Adobe at 43, Linotype at 50, Emigre at 82, FontStruct at 144, FontShop at 145, and Typographica at 191.

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