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

[Walter van Kalken]

Tim Starling wrote:

>David Gerard wrote:
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>>http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_43/b4006095.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily
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>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.
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We do not use them only for that. On the nl.wikipedia there is a huge 
group of people who consider Alexa to be the holy grail and use it to 
dictating what an article can be written about or not. I wished you were 
right Tim.

Waerth