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POPSTC Thinks Alexa is Useless; I Disagree
I have to object with Arrington's analysis of Alexa and scold him for yet another blog article about how Alexa is inaccurate and needs a "re-work". Alexa is just a tool , no more no less. We all know HOW Alexa gathers data, and we all know the flaws. It should be used along with Compete and Comscore to gain an overall picture of where a webiste ranks in comparison to other sites in it's field. Just like your FICO score is calculated from 3 credit reporting agenncies, your overall website rank is the summation of different traffic and influence measurements. I can find flaws in any web service . How easy it is to show a bad rank order in Google? How easy is it to spot inaccuracies with the Technorati Top 100? Singling out tools and highlighting how inaccurate they are when you fully understand how it collects data is foolish. It also means that you can't discount a tool completely just because it isn't perfect. Will I post a blog article about how Google is use
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POPSGoogle Removing torrent Results, Open Source Search Engine Anyone? TorrentFreak has the story on Google censoring torrent search results. It's nothing new, as Google has been removing results for years on the requsts of various media companies like the RIAA/MPAA etc. Which brings me to my call for an open source, offshore (possibly) search engine that allows the community to determine what gets censored.
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POPSSomebody Call The Waambulance, Google Isn't Perfect Everyone is up in arms lately about Google's TOS and search robot lockout. People point to the hypocrisy of the situation citing that Google relies on 'openness" from other web properties for it's news service. Everyone in the blogosphere needs to get over it, and realize that Google is a typical competitive corporate establishment that doesn't always "do the right thing" and will aggressively look to protect and grow their business model. Why do you think they are crusading against paid links? ( Ad Words anyone)
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POPSGoogle Not Going After Digg & Netscape ... Yet Mashable had the hot steaming news about Google's new commenting system for it's News service. Before you start getting all giddy it's only open to companies and organizations "related" to the news story. Beyond the editorial nightmare what surprised me was the restraint here by Google. They could have started the process of Digg/Netscape annihilation by bringing Social news to the "true" masses. Oh well, I'll give them 6 months.
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