RIP Alexa Internet - (the website ranking thing, not the other amazon thing)

iNEEDthatMoney said:
Any alternatives to it?
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There's a few but I can't remember the names. It's not too hard for someone to track generic click rates and seo, not as much as hosting a bunch of images or videos so a lot more companies can pull this off or even some rando with a big server. But Amazon killing this tells me that even if it's profitable they find it to be a liability. I wonder why...
 
Rupert Bear said:
Of course. The internet is so small, consolidated and centralized nowadays there's no need for a ranking. Everyone already knows who the top players are.
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What terrified me was the Google ranking video showing that they found "1.5 billion results in 0.2 seconds" and it ended up that the Search Engine couldn't find more than 150 active links. It was to do with pizza or something really common.

Just absolutely terrifying that so much of the internet is just permanently disconnected and that there are large chunks of the internet that are just unreachable (because search engines either can't find them or refuse to display them).
 
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Cyberia Enjoyer said:
What terrified me was the Google ranking video showing that they found "1.5 billion results in 0.2 seconds" and it ended up that the Search Engine couldn't find more than 150 active links. It was to do with pizza or something really common.

Just absolutely terrifying that so much of the internet is just permanently disconnected and that there are large chunks of the internet that are just unreachable (because search engines either can't find them or refuse to display them).
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Alternative search engines really don't seem to be much better. IMO the whole upholding of the ancient robots.txt standard to the nth degree is I believe part of the fault of this, and the obsession with SEO that can only really be maintained by massive companies.
 
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They might as well. I remember a few years ago it was so heavily gamed, a lot of spammy pyramid scheme sites were in the top 100 and top 1000. Obviously all you had to do to get in the top listings was get a few dozen idiots to install the software and refresh your shitty page all day. And Amazon had locked down most of the public/free features.
 
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Toolbox said:
Alternative search engines really don't seem to be much better. IMO the whole upholding of the ancient robots.txt standard to the nth degree is I believe part of the fault of this, and the obsession with SEO that can only really be maintained by massive companies.
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You also have to wade through billions of pajeet sites that are just copypasted shit that link to each other to game search engines.
 
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I just discovered this and I am disappointed. I liked checking the stats on sites I love/hate, sort of like socialblade. What is the sinister motive here? Surely there is one as they don't even provide a reason on the website.
 
killingmesoftly said:
Similarweb.com works good
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Similarweb on here.
 
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