mashable.com— Amazon is suing an independent developer "into oblivion" for using Alexa graphs on his site. Sign the petition to support Statsaholic.
Apr 20, 2007View in Crawl 4
Until recently, he also plastered the Alexa name and logo all over his site, making it seem like Alexa is freely giving statsaholic/alexaholic the data. But in reality, Alexa has tried multiple times to try to block him from stealing their stats, but this guy has circumvented them each time (and even admitted to it). The guy probably could have worked out a deal with Alexa, to let him do what he's doing (without infringing on the Alexa trademarks), but he refused.I know some people are fighting for the little guy, here, but sometimes, the little guy is really the one to blame.
Cool! An online petition! Where do I sign! They always work!This one is even funnier. "Your honor, I move to dismiss this case on the grounds that people signed this petition."
This is from the Alexa Web Search web site:"The Alexa Web Search Platform provides public access to the vast web crawl collected by Alexa Internet. Users can search and process billions of documents -- even create their own search engines -- using Alexa's search and publication tools. Alexa provides compute and storage resources that allow users to quickly process and store large amounts of web data. Users can view the results of their processes interactively, transfer the results to their home machine, or publish them as a new web service." -- <a class="user" href="https://websearch.alexa.com/">https://websearch.alexa.com/</a>
"The Alexa Web Search Platform provides public access to the vast web crawl collected by Alexa Internet. Users can search and process billions of documents -- even create their own search engines -- using Alexa's search and publication tools. Alexa provides compute and storage resources that allow users to quickly process and store large amounts of web data. Users can view the results of their processes interactively, transfer the results to their home machine, or publish them as a new web service." -- <a class="user" href="https://websearch.alexa.com/">https://websearch.alexa.com/</a>
The web search platform is not what this guy was using, right. That's the point? They had this api and he was taking their graphs through another method? Why do I care?
This reminds me of a great line from the Simpsons:Mayor: "To get to the bottom of this, I the mayor have appointed a Blue Ribbon Investigative Committee"Springfield residents:"A Committee?!!""Did he say BLUE RIBBON?!""I'm Appeased!"
atomic1fireApr 20, 2007
My kingdom My kingdom for Firefox for every 20 words I write it corrects the ones I make wrong
entropymanApr 20, 2007
I'm using Firefox. I need something that can catch bad editing, not bad spelling.
tackleApr 20, 2007
blog spam.
tb0n3rApr 21, 2007
Until recently, he also plastered the Alexa name and logo all over his site, making it seem like Alexa is freely giving statsaholic/alexaholic the data. But in reality, Alexa has tried multiple times to try to block him from stealing their stats, but this guy has circumvented them each time (and even admitted to it). The guy probably could have worked out a deal with Alexa, to let him do what he's doing (without infringing on the Alexa trademarks), but he refused.I know some people are fighting for the little guy, here, but sometimes, the little guy is really the one to blame.
Closed AccountApr 21, 2007
Cool! An online petition! Where do I sign! They always work!This one is even funnier. "Your honor, I move to dismiss this case on the grounds that people signed this petition."
islandinthenetApr 22, 2007
This is from the Alexa Web Search web site:"The Alexa Web Search Platform provides public access to the vast web crawl collected by Alexa Internet. Users can search and process billions of documents -- even create their own search engines -- using Alexa's search and publication tools. Alexa provides compute and storage resources that allow users to quickly process and store large amounts of web data. Users can view the results of their processes interactively, transfer the results to their home machine, or publish them as a new web service." -- <a class="user" href="https://websearch.alexa.com/">https://websearch.alexa.com/</a>
islandinthenetApr 22, 2007
"The Alexa Web Search Platform provides public access to the vast web crawl collected by Alexa Internet. Users can search and process billions of documents -- even create their own search engines -- using Alexa's search and publication tools. Alexa provides compute and storage resources that allow users to quickly process and store large amounts of web data. Users can view the results of their processes interactively, transfer the results to their home machine, or publish them as a new web service." -- <a class="user" href="https://websearch.alexa.com/">https://websearch.alexa.com/</a>
nlubardApr 23, 2007
The web search platform is not what this guy was using, right. That's the point? They had this api and he was taking their graphs through another method? Why do I care?
brundlefly76Apr 24, 2007
This reminds me of a great line from the Simpsons:Mayor: "To get to the bottom of this, I the mayor have appointed a Blue Ribbon Investigative Committee"Springfield residents:"A Committee?!!""Did he say BLUE RIBBON?!""I'm Appeased!"
dasuberdogDec 24, 2007
Why does he need to hotlink? Alexa provide ability to put a graph on your site with a small code snippet...<a class="user" href="http://www.buyzillion.com">http://www.buyzillion.com</a>