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Ok, instead of reading the daily mail or various G+ posts, I went to the source: Chitika. They show a clear spike and return back to normal levels, as can be s
by kposehn 15y ago
Ok, instead of reading the daily mail or various G+ posts, I went to the source: Chitika.
They show a clear spike and return back to normal levels, as can be seen in the graph on this page: http://insights.chitika.com/2011/failure-to-launch-google-growth-spurt-short-lived/ http://insights.chitika.com/2011/failure-to-launch-google-gr...
Key Notes:
1. Chitika's conclusions from the data are sketchy and I don't put much stock in them.
2. The overall spike and rapid decline back is undeniable and troubling.
3. The press of course likes headlines and Google is most certainly not a media darling any longer, thus the news sensationalizing a relatively humdrum statistic.
~~ Chitika's headline is quite clearly accurate ~~
- nikcub 15y agoKey Note: The Chikita graph measures a 'traffic index', which could be anything. The bump is because G+ launched last week and it was linked to from Google.com - the most popular web page in the world Show me a product that has launched and not experienced a traffic 'bump' If you measure the backend of that bump, you will always show a decline. Zoom out. And that is not to mention that Chitika do not publish their traffic collection methodology. It is just some chart they pushed out to bloggers in a press release (with their branding on it!) and all these bloggers have been far too quick to publish. edit: this tilted me enough that I wrote a blog post about it : http://nikcub.appspot.com/lies-damn-lies-and-google-statistics http://nikcub.appspot.com/lies-damn-lies-and-google-statisti...