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Google Launches Web Traffic Analysis Service

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the walking-the-fine-line-between-free-and-advertising dept.

segphault writes to pass along that Ars Technica has an interesting article about the recently released Google Analytics. Analytics is Google's new traffic analysis service that helps you to know everything from "how your visitors found you [to] how they interact with your site." Analytics is also built to integrate with AdWords if you are already utilizing that service.

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  1. Site down already? by xero9 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Seems it got /.ed before it even went live

  2. *adds google-analytics.com to his hostperm.1* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is it just me, or is Google getting just slightly too ubiquitous? It really scares me across just how large a part of my online activities they can track me, and "do no evil" stands very little chance when faced with the Homeland Security goons. Lcukily there's SeaMonkey/Firefox/Mozilla: *adds the following line to his hostperm.1 file* host script 2 google-analytics.com (note that the spaces between those strings have to be tabs)

  3. In other news... by Tidal+Flame · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In other news, Google has announced that they are planning to have a service for each word in the English dictionary by mid 2007. Google Myxomatosis is on its way!

  4. Re:Urchin by BenDalton · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I would assume this is directly based on Urchin. Especially since the javascript used on sites that are to be monitored is "urchin.js".