techcrunch.com — A web startup teams to keep track of their competitors, you start by creating a project like “Ajax startpages” or whatever field you are interested in. You then add competitors by URL. Competitio.us hits the web and brings back each company’s blog, recent blog posts, related blog posts from off site and detailed traffic data from Alexa.
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taddaOct 5, 2006
Great if your competitors are practicing full disclosure through their blogs... and if the data Alexa brings in is wholly accurate
ahmedfOct 5, 2006
This is retarded - why link to the blog and not to the site itself?
dotnetskyOct 5, 2006
The cross - section of people that have the Alexa toolbar (I do not, personally) is actually a pretty good proxy for web surfers. What's important is not whether they represent websurfers as a whole, but that the relative statistics of their sample over time track pretty well. So I wouldn't be so quick to discount the value of Alexa's services.
Closed AccountOct 5, 2006
@Dotnetsky:Bulls**t. <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/tech_news/Why_Alexa_is_Worthless">http://digg.com/tech_news/Why_Alexa_is_Worthless</a>
apetrieOct 5, 2006
Damn, dugg for the mere fact that it told me there were two other projects that had a common competitor with mine. Considering how specific it is, that is damn good info to have. Too bad I can't see what they are, but it totally makes sense that I wouldn't be able to. I wouldn't want them seeing mine either! The only thing I'd like is suggestions for other sites I could add as competition, based on what the other projects I have a competitor in common with have on their lists.
apetrieOct 5, 2006
It is not necessarily the goal of every company or website to be bought out by a larger company. Besides that though, considering how popular the web 2.0 style is, both naming and look, I think you're wrong about it being taken seriously anyway.
maxiumOct 5, 2006
I believe Alexa is evil...~M
zupaOct 6, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://www.alexaholic.com">http://www.alexaholic.com</a> works fine for me ;-)anyway - it is not possible to make "projects" public here... why the hell would I make a private comparison? it is not "social"...
sillydudeOct 6, 2006
I think most people who are creating a company would rather keep the information private. That is not to say that they won't enable you to export some of the information soon ;).