The Register

The Register
A screenshot from August 2017
Type of site
 technology news
Available in English
Headquarters London, England, United Kingdom
Owner Situation Publishing
Created by Mike Magee
John Lettice
Website www.theregister.co.uk
Alexa rank Decrease 7,194 (September 2018)[1]
Commercial yes
Registration optional
Launched 1994
Current status active

The Register (nicknamed El Reg) is a British technology news and opinion website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee, John Lettice and Ross Alderson.[2] Situation Publishing Ltd is listed as the site's publisher. Drew Cullen is an owner, Linus Birtles the managing director and Andrew Orlowski is the Executive Editor.

History

The Register was founded in London as an email newsletter called Chip Connection. In 1998 The Register became a daily online news source. Magee left in 2001 to start competing publications The Inquirer, and later the IT Examiner and TechEye.[3]

In 2002, The Register expanded to have a presence in London and San Francisco, creating The Register USA at theregus.com through a joint venture with Tom's Hardware.[4] In 2003, that site moved to theregister.com.[5] That content was later merged onto theregister.co.uk. The Register carries syndicated content including Simon Travaglia's BOFH stories.[6]

In 2010 The Register supported the successful launch of the Paper Aircraft Released Into Space, a project they announced in 2009 that released a paper plane in the extreme upper atmosphere.[7]

Editorial staffers include Andrew Orlowski, Paul Kunert, Gavin Clarke, Joe Fay, Chris Williams (San Francisco bureau), Iain Thomson and Simon Sharwood (Sydney office). Jude Karabus is head of production.

Readership and content

In 2011 it was read daily by over 350,000 users according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations,[8] rising to 468,000 daily and nearly 9.5 million monthly in 2013.[9] In November 2011 the UK and US each accounted for approximately 42% and 34% of page impressions respectively, with Canada being the next most significant origin of page hits at 3%.[8] In 2012 the UK and US accounted for approximately 41% and 28% of page impressions respectively, with Canada at 3.61%.[9]

In October 2013, Alexa reported that the site ranked #3,140 in the world for its web traffic, up approximately 1,516 slots over the previous 3 months. It was #2,343 in the USA.

In April 2015, following a redesign of the website, Alexa reported that the site ranking dropped to #3,430 in the world, and traffic had dropped by over 6%.

Popularity of the site continues to decline, at 11 April 2016 Alexa gives a global ranking for the site of #4,750.

As of 12 October 2017, Alexa gave a global ranking for the site of #6,602. By 12 September 2018, Alexa ranking had continued to fall still further to #7,194.[10]

Channel Register covers computer business and trade news, which includes business press releases. News and articles for computer hardware and consumer electronics is covered by Reg Hardware. Reg Research is an in-depth resource on technologies and how they relate to business.

Intel chips flaw investigation

Around January 3, 2018, The Register broke news about Google's long-ongoing investigation into Intel's processor design, which revealed that a serious flaw in the design of their chips would require Microsoft, Linux and Apple to update operating systems for computers around the world.[11]

Criticism

On 7 October 2010,The Register ran an article headlined "Much of recent global warming actually caused by Sun". Martin Robbins, writing in The Guardian, criticized The Register for failing to make it clear that the fluctuation is cyclical, and that the existence of fluctuations are not new information; the Sun's 11-year solar cycle regularly warm the Earth during one portion of the cycle, only to cool the Earth about equally during the opposite portion of the cycle. The reference journal article hypothesizes that the cycles are the reverse of what is usually assumed; contrary to The Register's implications, the journal's findings and comments do not conflict with the scientific consensus around anthropogenic global warming. Robbins also criticized The Register for the repeated use of the negative term 'boffin', "common at the random-USE-of-CAPITALS end of tabloid journalism". Lewis Page published a response in The Register defending his headline as technically correct, that "the article title accurately reflected her comments to Nature...[we] made clear in the body of the piece that the research referred only to the period 2004-2007. We also reported her comments on the solar cycle and possible effects over the past century" and finishing that "down here at the random-use-of-capitals end of tabloid journalism, Mr Robbins, we DON'T CARE what YOU THINK. We are certainly not going to amend the article because you say so: and this is our response, delivered pretty much the way your request for comment was"[12][13]

References

  1. ↑ "Theregister.co.uk Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
  2. ↑ Grossman, Wendy M. (2 June 2006). "How online journalism got its UK start". Press Gazette. Wilmington Media Ltd. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013.
  3. ↑ Walsh, Bob (2007). Clear Blogging: How People Blogging Are Changing the World and How You Can Join Them. Apress, ISBN 9781590596913
  4. ↑ Cullen, Drew (25 February 2002). The Register Comes to the US. The Register
  5. ↑ Cullen, Drew (24 February 2003). theregister.com goes live. The Register
  6. ↑ Adams, Andrew A., McCrindle, Rachel (2008). Pandora's Box: Social and Professional Issues of the Information Age. John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 9780470065532
  7. ↑ "Paper plane launched into space captures Earth images". BBC News. 11 November 2010. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
  8. 1 2 "The Register" (PDF), abc.org.uk, Audit Bureau of Circulations Limited, retrieved 19 January 2012
  9. 1 2 "The Register" (PDF), www.abc.org.uk, Audit Bureau of Circulations Limited, retrieved 1 October 2013
  10. ↑ "Theregister.co.uk Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
  11. ↑ Wakefield, Jane (2018). "Major flaw in millions of Intel chips". BBC News. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
  12. ↑ Robbins, Martin (12 October 2010). "One climate paper, two conflicting headlines". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  13. ↑ Page, Lewis (12 October 2010). "Guardian super-blogger flames Reg boffinry desk". theregister.co.uk. Retrieved 29 April 2017.

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