[Foundation-l] Business Week: Alexa numbers are rubbish, and the others are worse

Tim Starling tstarling at wikimedia.org
Wed Oct 18 09:32:48 UTC 2006


David Gerard wrote:
> http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_43/b4006095.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily

It's probably no big surprise for those who are aware of Alexa's data 
collection method. Just be glad we only use these statistics for curiosity 
and bragging. For web companies who need to convince investors or 
advertisers of their value, I can easily imagine the situation becoming 
hellish.

-- Tim Starling




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