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I wonder if they acquired Urchin (GA, ~2005, so well before they started cornering mobile/browser markets) to start building out and improving their rankings th
by vgeek 3y ago
I wonder if they acquired Urchin (GA, ~2005, so well before they started cornering mobile/browser markets) to start building out and improving their rankings through the data. If they have user data through Chrome, why would they want to keep footing the bill for hosting free analytics for everyone? What easier way would there be to kick everyone off than launching GA4, which seems to be universally despised? Google's liaisons have said that the data from GA was firewalled, but I'm more skeptical, since a lot of times they say things opposite of what many have actually observed.
- twelve40 3y agothey could have.. I dunno... maybe start charging for it instead of effectively murdering the product?
- pooper 3y ago> they could have.. I dunno... maybe start charging for it instead of effectively murdering the product? Google Analytics has a paid tier but I remember someone on reddit joked like the price is probably too high because they don't even show it publicly...
- vgeek 3y agoGA Premium started at $100k/yr ~10 years ago and pretty much only disabled sampling on reports and added additional custom dimensions. This was pre-360 days and was 5x what we were paying for Adobe Analytics. Once you get to those levels, Snowflake/Segment/CDP type platforms combined with your own storage and COTS BI tooling become more appealing due to flexibility and data portability.
- stevofolife 3y agoWhat CDP type platforms do you recommend? Adobe CDP?