Thanks for this pointer, Haitham.
But this reminds me of a longtime concern about Alexa: Where does Alexa get
its numbers? As far as I can tell (and I haven't spent more than 2 minutes
looking for an answer), it's using a spyware toolbar to do client-side
analytics from participating (or just ignorant... ;)) users' browsers, as
well as a server-side component collecting data from visitors to those
sites that have installed their component. Since neither we nor Google
have installed their server-side component, am I correct to infer all they
can know about
wiki?edia.org domains stems from that group of users who
have the Alexa toolbar installed?
If I am, isn't that worse than useless?
A.
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Haitham Shammaa <hshammaa(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
Alexa gives some info on clickstream, but regardless
of the search result
order (e.g. 23.54% from google).
It also gives where visitors go on
Wikipedia.org, which is helpful to get
information about language breakdown (58%:En, 7.5:De)
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org
Hope this is helpfuI, although it`s not perfectly what you are looking for.
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:47 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hi all,
Are there any solid estimates out there of how many Google [or other]
searches have a Wikipedia article as the first [or second or third...]
hit? Any language breakdowns of this would be super cool as well.
I've seen offhand references to this phenomenon in many papers, but
I'm wondering if someone on this list knows of a particularly good
estimate or reliable information.
thanks,
Phoebe
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