Alexa is now tracking sites. On their home page they tell you what sites have jumped and they have a “Traffic Watch” feature in their Related Info for: pages that graphs “reach”. A neat feature is that you can compare any of the sites they track.
A couple of years ago I gave a paper on tracking culture by graphing web hits. We (Skip Poehlman, Michael Picheca and I) built a system that could track keywords and store results from daily searches. One could then graph any two against each other and so on. I see now that Alexa now has this feature and has been tracking some cultural comparisons like “Liberal Talk Radio”. Will they generalize this? Will they let us track our stuff?
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