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users compare two sites and shows you "Where do people go" on the site. It's a gold
mine of data about the sites in Alexa's top 100,000; unfortunately, most of the sites I
wanted to research were not in that top group, so no statistics were available when a
site fell below the 100,000 threshold.
In case the Google PageRank tool confuses you, it normally requires users to
download and install the Google Toolbar. However, you can access the Google
PageRank option from URLinfo without the Google Toolbar. The results look rather
mysterious, but the PageRank is there. In the following example, AOL's home page
has a page rank of 8 (where 10 is the highest. ..and Google gets a 10 ranking, by the
way):
http://www.aol.com
PR Toolbar: 9
PR Actual: 9
Finally, under Mise you'll find the tools that didn't quite fit anywhere else. One word
of caution about BugMeNot: this is a service for sharing login information for
websites that require user registration and, as such, its ethics is questionable. I do
not recommend using it. It may also violate organizational Internet usage rules.
I think URLinfo will prove to be a very useful if not indispensable tool for researchers,
but I also think the key to using it effectively is not using every bell and whistle.
Fagan Finder's URLinfo beta
http://www.faganfinder.com/urlinfo/
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/
The 2007 edition is the first to include a separate section on and discussion of
Wikipedia and the entire "wiki" phenomenon. The extraordinary growth and success
of Wikipedia demand recognition and comment. Although the numbers change
constantly, in mid-2006, Wikipedia sites were the twelfth most visited Internet sites
among US properties, up over 300 percent from the 'previous year.?1 On March 1,
2006, Wikipedia reached one million articles, and "the site receives as many as
71 Safa Rashtchy , et aI., "Silk Road : Solid Search Results Could Boost the Sector," PiperJaffray
Industry Note, 10 July 2006, available at John Battelle 's Searchblog,
[PDF] (14
November 2006) .
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