Why google down to fourth place in Alexa rank

Discussion in 'Google' started by eng152, Feb 26, 2008.

  1. #1
    I saw this in alexa home page. Now google is gone to 4th place in alexa rank. Is traffic of google is becoming lower that yahoo,youtube and live :eek:

    Please somebody can give Advanced details. :)
     
    eng152, Feb 26, 2008 IP
  2. astup1didiot

    astup1didiot Notable Member

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    #2
    Really, it doesn't matter. First, Alexa is one of the worst ways to give any value to a website, easily less than 2% of web users use it, and that might be even to high an estimate. Second, Alexa is nothing but spyware, it collects data of your web surfing and acts like its made just for ranking. Don't be fooled, Alexa is connected to one of the top marketing analysis companies around.
     
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    w3bmaster Notable Member

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    #3
    Alexa is crap

    This doesn't stop G or any site making $$$

    Same with PR

    Stop strugling or watching things that are worthless
     
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    angilina Notable Member

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    #4
    Why will anyone worry about Alexa rank?

    It means nothing at all.
     
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    AutumnBreeze Peon

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    #5
    Indeed! Sadly some place a site's "worth" on it's alexa ranking. Totally meaningless.
     
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  6. jonbuoy

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    #6
    Are there any sites than can give an honest opinion of a website's traffic in comparison to a competitor?

    I know from Google Analytics what traffic my sites receive, but what I would like to know is how that compares to my competitor's traffic.
     
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    wisdomtool Moderator Staff

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    Alexa is based on sampling of a certain number of users. I do not see Alexa publishing any technical numbers for eg how accurate is its ranking, what is the variance of the traffic hits etc. So it would be kinda of difficult to judge just on Alexa's information.
     
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  8. enous

    enous Well-Known Member

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    #8
    The Facebook and Youtube comes up...
     
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    webcosmo Notable Member

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    #9
    Yahoo gets way more traffic then Google worldwide. Makes sense, since Alexa is all about visitors and pageviews.
     
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    imnajam Well-Known Member

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    #10
    Yahoo have alot more products than google, like yahoo movies, yahoo weathers, yahoo greetings, yahoo blogs, simply yahoo have more content pages for visitors to come to yahoo.

    However, google have the highest share in search engine market only.

    Make sense:)
     
    imnajam, Feb 28, 2008 IP
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  11. eng152

    eng152 Banned

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    #11
    It's true, yahoomail is the most popular service from yahoo
     
    eng152, Mar 2, 2008 IP
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    #12
    Alexa = IE6

    Smart people use google and Fifefox/Opera/Mozilla Suite 1.7

    So the percentage of IE6 visitors at google might be lower and so is Alexa rank.
     
    zabijaq, Mar 2, 2008 IP
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    trichnosis Prominent Member

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    #13
    alexa allways sucks. alexa rank is nothink for me. it's untrustable
     
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  14. eng152

    eng152 Banned

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    #14
    But firefox has an addon to alexa. :confused:
     
    eng152, Mar 2, 2008 IP
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    #15
    coz google did not install alexa widget ... :)
     
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    #16
    have you tried, quantcast.com I like it because it gives Demographics
     
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    wilhb81 Active Member

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    #17
    It really doesn't a matter, whether the alexa ranking is exist or not...
     
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    #18
    Google is losing traffic compared to yahoo and msn.

    ref:: pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/142408/google_share_of_us_ads_down.html :p
     
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    eng152 Banned

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    #19
    No i don't think your words ;)
     
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    #20
    Alexa rankings are not good
     
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