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Minh Nguyen wrote:
Unlike Alexa, the thing with Google is that you can skim through some of the results and see if a lot of them are the result of spamming or googlebombing. If so, you can often refine your search to exclude such pages. I use Google a lot in getting an idea of how notable the subject of a new article is, because I can see what kinds of sites mention it.
The other difference being that, although Alexa and Google are probably each as vulnerable to being gamed, Google has a substantially larger number of users and a substantially better database (speaking personally, Googlebot is my website's top robot visitor whereas A9/Alexa doesn't even register).
Cynical