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Comment on Alexa Says YouTube Is Now Bigger Than Google. Alexa Is ... — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:07:35 +0000

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MKT CHINA » Chinese Marketing - Search Engine Resources — Fri, 23 May 2008 07:08:44 +0000

[...] no secret that Alexa rankings can be (and are) far from accurate even within U.S. oriented markets. Reason is quite simple: the stats are approximated based on the [...]

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By: Alexa modifica l’algoritmo… sarà finalmente attendibile? by Mondo Informatico

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:55:05 +0000

[...] è probabilmente proprio a causa di statistiche senza senso (come quelle che indicavano il numero di pageview di YouTube superiori a quelle di Google) che Alexa si è convinta ad effettuare alcuni miglioramenti al suo sistema; vediamo di cosa si [...]

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Alexa Overhauls Ranking System — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:04:11 +0000

[...] regularly derided in the past for its often bizarre results (like YouTube having more traffic that Google), Alexa has continued to maintain popularity due to its broad global reach and completely free [...]

By: Is Alexa Completely Useless? Michael Arrington Says Yes! | franzone.com

Is Alexa Completely Useless? Michael Arrington Says Yes! | franzone.com — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:15:15 +0000

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ANALYTICS 2.0 - much more than just tagging — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:09:18 +0000

[...] shows lot of examples where Alexa is displaying incorrect data, but there is something Techcrunch is not considering and [...]

By: Alexa’s Make Believe Internet

Alexa’s Make Believe Internet — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:07:03 +0000

[...] In August Alexa said that YouTube passed Google itself in total page views. They were wrong, but their data continues to perpetuate this alternate [...]

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Sean Hakes - Press the issue » Cheezhead - more stuff — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:18:07 +0000

[...] right Alexa is crap. TechCrunch, Mark Evans, Myblog and Forever geek are all reporting that Alexa is useless, that is pretty much [...]

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Comment on Alexa Says YouTube Is Now Bigger Than Google. Alexa Is … — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:43:08 +0000

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China Internet Marketing, Trends & SEO - StartuPlay — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:32:45 +0000

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It’s no secret that Alexa rankings can be (and are) far from accurate even within U.S. oriented markets. Reason is quite simple: the stats are approximated based on the Alexa toolbar–and its use across a tiny segment of overall Internet usa…

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Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:08:18 +0000

[...] vital in understanding how to better leverage your corporate career site and since Alexa has been unofficially labeled as a TOY, I have received calls and emails asking for a good [...]

By: Youtube supera en Tráfico a Google | ReDiario!

Youtube supera en Tráfico a Google | ReDiario! — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:32:05 +0000

[...] de referéncia tecnológica TechCrunch comentó a principios de mes la notícia titulada ‘Alexa Says YouTube Is Now Bigger Than Google. Alexa Is Useless‘ trad. ‘Alexa dice que YouTube es mas grande que Google. Alexa no sirve para [...]

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:24:33 +0000

This explains a lot and confirms my worst fears.

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alexa taktikleri - 2. Sayfa - Zoque.Forum — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:46:23 +0000

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By: Dom Einhorn

Dom Einhorn — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:03:26 +0000

With as many ways there are in faking (artificially inflating) Youtube traffic, that may have something to do with those numbers as well. In addition, a large majority of Youtube traffic consists of people uploading their (very often useless) creations and in managing those assets. Try running an ad campaign on youtube, or any other user-generated web site for that matter, and get ready for infinitesimal click through rates.

By: mark

mark — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:37:25 +0000

What a list of bs on the thread. Alexa is what Alexa is. They are useful in that you can see what the audience of people that have installed Alexa are doing. Alexa doesn’t say “this is what the world is doing”. Far from it, they are saying here is what the people using our toolbar are doing based on the measuring method we have put in place.

Don’t like the report, don’t use it. Find it useful, use it. It is amazing you all spend this much effort bad mouthing it. Ridiculous. There is nothing to be gained by the slams.

Much more useful would be inputs on other metrics that could be investigated to get different perspectives on what is going on, on the net.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:49:02 +0000

The problem with Comscore is similar to Neilsen in that there are only a limited number of households being tracked to determine or extrapolate the supposedly viewing habits of the Internet as a whole. All these metrics have major limitations in their ability to track accurately what is going on across the Internet. You have to take them with a big grain of salt.

In the end they are all a means of getting some idea of where people may or may not be spending their time online. Only the log files at a given website can truely tell you anything meaningful, and even then, trying to dicipher true unique visitors is black art at best.

By: Jez

Jez — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:58:46 +0000

Hi Micheal,

You have got this badly wrong and here is why:

http://www.sitelogic.co.uk/tec.....not-alexa/

Sorry about the post title, I may tone that down a bit

By: TechCrunch is Useless not Alexa » SiteLogic Web Development

TechCrunch is Useless not Alexa » SiteLogic Web Development — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:43:56 +0000

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By: BringTraffic

BringTraffic — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:44:34 +0000

Its not accurate, damn, there is no “Edit” here……

By: BringTraffic

BringTraffic — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:42:48 +0000

Who cares what Alexa say’s, it’s accurate anyway!

By: Tamia

Tamia — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:18:01 +0000

hi i enjoyed the read

By: Igor

Igor — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:33:34 +0000

… and what other services believe that there are any other countries in the world other than US and measure non-US traffic??? :)))))
funny stuff….

By: Chris McElroy aka NameCritic

Chris McElroy aka NameCritic — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:41:20 +0000

Also, remind me again why we care to check google or youtube’s alexa ranking? Unfortunately I don’t own either of them nor are they my clients, so pretty much a “too much time on your hands” issue here?