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Re: Petition Against Alexa’s Statsaholic Lawsuit

w_webmaster — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:40:57 -0000

We can judge the popularity of these sites by seeing their ranking in http://www.alexa.com/data/d... Alexa. Orkut has been steadily rising on the Alexa charts but MySpace is still significantly bigger than Orkut.com.

Re: Petition Against Alexa’s Statsaholic Lawsuit

Jenn — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:38:25 -0000

Does anyone know if the case is still going on?

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Jack — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:31:42 -0000

Douglas:

The problem is that Statsaholic isn't actually USING the alexa API, though they could be. Statsaholic is deliberately avoiding using the alexa API to avoid paying the fees associated with its use, hence the lawsuit.

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Douglas Karr — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:25:22 -0000

Technorati does a pretty cool job of limiting the number of calls that you can make to its API on a daily basis. Rather than ridiculously suing Statsaholic, why doesn't Alexa simply throttle the calls and put a pay per call model in place to allow Statsaholic to continue to prosper AND financially benefit from the partnership.

Lending your tools to the neighbor and getting mad when he uses them better than you did is pretty childish.

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Khürt L. Williams — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:06:45 -0000

James,
I agree with you.

"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." - https://websearch.alexa.com

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Dmitriy Kruglyak — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 03:50:18 -0000

Amazon, hands off Statsaholic!

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Paul Geromini — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:46:05 -0000

Sad

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Viacheslav — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 07:28:53 -0000

Completely agreed. Graphs supplied by Alexa contain references to Alexa, which is free advertising for them. Beside the simple fact that they could've settled this with much simpler methods than going to court. Also - Boycott Alexa crawler: insert this into your robots.txt:

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

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Bob Foster — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:26:41 -0000

Totally agree. Bring on the boycott!

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Gary Pranzo — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:20:55 -0000

I guess no more Alexa or Amazon for me. I could see if their was some kind of business sense here but this is just bullying. Our lawyer is Bigger then yours.

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casey — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:05:08 -0000

We use your tool often and wish you the best of luck. Until then I'm pulling may amazon.com shares to target.com.

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Kevin P. Riley — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:04:53 -0000

Don't make the same stupid move that the RIAA does amazon. Suing people who you want to like you IS NOT A WISE BUSINESS DECISION.

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John Doe — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:54:17 -0000

Who cares? Alexa sucks and is wildly inaccurate.

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Theo S. — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:17:09 -0000

Amazon should drop this shameful case.

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Brian Lee — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:58:55 -0000

Does Amazon have retarded executives that don't understand web 2.0? I would think they would hire the guy (or buy his website - same thing) instead of suing him? All I know is that I'm a lot more apprehensive about using Amazon's services...

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Michael Gilligan — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:13:51 -0000

I support the petition and am boycotting Amazon.

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Dan S — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:19:36 -0000

I support this petition. Amazon is really make itself look bad...everyone is talking.

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C. Meone — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:34:58 -0000

We have enough bullies at school, in Redmond, in Comcast/AOL/etc., and in Washington than to need one more with Alexa. However, since, according to the defendant Alexa only discriminates against him, he should have no problem defending himself.

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Larry Johnson — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:31:31 -0000

Amazon needs to back off. Till then no more purchases from their web site by me.

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Stig Nordas — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:42:05 -0000

Amazon: Make a deal with Statsaholic, don't bury them in a lawsuit! How about just charging a fair licensing fee?

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Monxi Garza — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:36:16 -0000

I agree with this petition completely. This law suit against Statsaholic is completely and utterly ridiculous. This mas was merely being helpful.

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Cecil McGregor — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:33:55 -0000

I can't believe Alexa would do something like this to someone who has obviously helped Alexa as much as Alexaholic! What am I missing in this story?

Is this another nail in the coffin of cooperative net building?

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Paula — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:33:12 -0000

Shame on Amazon! Shame...shame....double shame! >.

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Dylan Mankey — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:27:49 -0000

Man, I thought Amazon was one of the good guys. I know big business will always do things we don't like, but the new generation of big tech companies seemed to be changing things for the better. However this lawsuit makes me wonder if Amazon is among those companies.

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Ben — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:25:08 -0000

Well the only people who are going to drop being an amazon affiliate are the ones making zero money at it. It seems bad to me that they after going after him after encouraging him. I don't see how that will fly.