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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:Good luck with all that by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Informative

    Galileo.

    --
    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  2. Google Analytics = Urchin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The blurb sounds kind of down on Yahoo for buying somebody and then giving the product away, but Google did exactly the same thing. Google Analytics is a retooled version of Urchin, a web stats company that Google purchased in 2005.

  3. Re:Good luck with all that by Goaway · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not necessarily. Anchors usually fall in water, where drag is high and terminal velocity is quickly reached. Thus the speed of fall mainly depends on the combined drag of the two anchors, which may or may not be twice the drag of one anchor, depending on all kinds of factors.