[Air-L] Most popular sites

[Eric Goldman]

It's my understanding that Alexa is heavily skewed towards measuring web
browsing by marketing folks because they are the main people who have
installed the Alexa client.

The Google PageRank displayed via the Google toolbar is notoriously slow to
update, which makes it typically out-of-date.

Eric.
On Feb 5, 2008 7:00 AM, Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu> wrote:

> You have to be careful with pagerank, unless you have access to the
> raw results, because google customizes results based on acct and even
> domain.
>  On Feb 5, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Ismael Peña-López wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I have personally used Google PageRank as a proxy for popularity. In
> > my
> > opinion, it is more inclusive - in the sense that Sarah pointed - than
> > Alexa.
> >
> > On the other hand, PR is not an absolute ranking, so you'll need
> > something
> > more to compare two sites with same PR.
> >
> > Ismael Peña-López
> > ICTlogy.net
> >
> > Public Policies for Development and ICT4D
> > School of Law and Political Science
> > Open University of Catalonia
> >
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