It's my understanding that Alexa is heavily skewed towards measuring web browsing by marketing folks because they are the main people who have installed the Alexa client. The Google PageRank displayed via the Google toolbar is notoriously slow to update, which makes it typically out-of-date. Eric. On Feb 5, 2008 7:00 AM, Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
You have to be careful with pagerank, unless you have access to the raw results, because google customizes results based on acct and even domain. On Feb 5, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Ismael Peña-López wrote:
Hi
I have personally used Google PageRank as a proxy for popularity. In my opinion, it is more inclusive - in the sense that Sarah pointed - than Alexa.
On the other hand, PR is not an absolute ranking, so you'll need something more to compare two sites with same PR.
Ismael Peña-López ICTlogy.net
Public Policies for Development and ICT4D School of Law and Political Science Open University of Catalonia
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