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Yahoo to Take on Google Analytics

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the battle-of-the-network-titans dept.

whencanistop writes "Having seen Google set up their Google Analytics product for free (in an attempt to get everyone to spend more money on adwords) and then seen Microsoft release their version of a free web analytics tool into beta, Yahoo have decided to do the same thing, by buying someone else and releasing it into the wild for free. Great news for bloggers who don't want to sign up for Google's 'evil' plans."

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  1. Re:Followers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Yahoo?" More like "Metoo."

  2. Re:Anonymous Coward by ForumTroll · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why did the small potato murder all of the other potatoes??? Can't the potatoes all just get along?

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  3. Re:Google is NOT EVIL by ForumTroll · · Score: 3, Funny

    We've had this conversation more than once, but to those who have not been aware, Google is not evil.....yet.
    Whew. Thank god you posted! For a second there I thought that I might have to form an opinion of my own. Thank you Slashdot collective!
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  4. Re:Good luck with all that by MrNaz · · Score: 4, Funny

    An easy example of working out terminal velocity can be calculated with Stokes' Law.

    In general terms, the two anchors are likely to fall at the same rate assuming they dont affect each other's fluid displacement, as you would expect if they are falling side by side. If, however, one was on top of the other, then the sink speed would likely increase, as you'd have a greater mass behind the displacement and hence a greater force, but the turbulence caused by the leading edge of the lower anchor would likely decrease the drag experienced by the second.

    Of course, the fact that the anchors are not regular shapes means that this becomes monstrously complex when you try to actually calculate any numbers. In fact, even were they two perfect spheres, it'd still be monstrously complex. Come to think of it, fluid dynamics is monstrously complex in general.

    Monstrously yours,
    - Naz.

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  5. Re:Good luck with all that by FooAtWFU · · Score: 1, Funny

    Galileo!

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  6. Re:Good luck with all that by IRGlover · · Score: 2, Funny

    Galileo Figaro!

  7. Re:Good luck with all that by D+Ninja · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm just a poor boy