Google Faces Off With Compete, Alexa, Comscore, Quantcast (And Soon Firefox)
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Jason Kincaid
TechCrunch.com
Friday, June 20, 2008; 5:09 PM
Google has just introduced Google Trends For Websites, a new tool that lets users take a peek at the traffic data from sites around the web. The new feature pits Google against a number of well-established players in the traffic data space, including Compete, Comscore, Alexa, and a host of others.
All these services fall prey to one core problem - they don't have a way to directly measure the traffic on the websites that they're monitoring (some sites let you embed code to get an accurate reading, but this only works for sites that ...