Re: pop langs website ranking

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:41:33 -0700 (PDT), "xahlee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<xahlee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said
:

> alexa
I was shocked at the detailed information Alexa (owned by Amzon.com)_
had about my website.  I wrote them and asked how they got it.  They
said volunteers use a special browsing tool that re****ts website
visits.  They use that to generate the information.

I suppose then one way to bump your stats is to use the tool for
maintaining your own website.

The weakness of this approach is it is unusual group of people who
will voluntarily submit to having their usage spied on.  These are not
a typical group or a large group.

Google has AdSense that will let them know in huge detail the hit
stats on a huge hunk of the web, but I don't know if they publish that
information anywhere.

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