From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Alexa rethinks rankings

April 20, 2008

Alexa, currently facing new challenges from companies like Compete and Quantcast, has updated its ranking to provide more accurate results.

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Yahoo takes a play from Google’s aquisition book

April 18, 2008

On the heels of Yahoo’s announcement of their acquisition of web analytics purveyor IndexTools, Yahoo announced that the tool will be made available free of charge. There are some caveats.  Current IndexTools customers will be required to sign a standard Yahoo! agreement, and at this time the freebie won’t be for everyone.  The masses will [...]

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5 troubling Second Search results

April 7, 2008

“Second Search” is a technique being tested by Google which allows searching a specific web site for content without leaving Google. It all sounds innocent, but businesses aren’t seeing it that way.

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YouTube’s Insight weak at the gate

April 5, 2008

YouTube’s Insight isn’t all that robust or useful—especially after the drought of information previously available.

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