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Google Acquires Measure Map

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-my-traffic-is-from-siberia dept.

WeAz writes "According to the Google Blog, Google has acquired Measure Map, an analytics system for blogs, from Adaptive Path. There is a limited beta test up and running over at the Measure Map Website. Many users have been using analytics to track stats on their sites - I wonder how this will stack up."

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  1. Measure Map Information by VeryHotTopic · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those who don't know, Measure Map helps you understand what people do at your blog, and what influence you are having on the world. It's easy to navigate the numbers that matter. It tracks links to see who sends you traffic. It finds out what people do at your site. Setup is a breeze -- it only takes a minute.

    1. Re:Measure Map Information by ozbon · · Score: 2, Informative

      In my experience of Measure Map, I found it wasn't really all that accurate.

      It also logs "posts viewed" as including ones visited by spammers, along with counting the spam comments, even though WordPress ignores them completely, or just sticks them straight into the spam filters.

      I suppose it's OK, it just didn't seem as accurate or worthwhile as some of the other stats packages I've used.

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      I say we take off and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...
  2. fuck your copy/paste job asshole by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    you copied and pasted three lines of text from their website and you get modded that high? fuck off.

  3. Measure Map and usability by walnut_tree · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm guessing that Google have purchased Measure Map in large part due to the usability or "user experience" element that has gone into the service.

    Google Analytics (from what I can see of the screenshots on Google's website) has a very static, statistical appearance to the way it presents data. Measure Map seems to be taking a different approach - a less cluttered appearance than analytics, selectively showing key website stats (rather than showing everything at once) but still letting users drill further into the stats data to explore in more detail if they want to. From what I understand, Measure Map also uses Ajax and Flash to let users explore data interactively, rather than just presenting them with a static page.