Comments on: Google Analytics: Another Google Dud?

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I guess the “beta” tag on their products isn’t having the once desired effect.

By: Piers Fawkes

Piers Fawkes — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

In fact, they've made the whole term 'Beta' a bit of a joke. If you're live, you're live. There's nothing beta about this anymore. Beta comes fromt he land of software, and the web isn't about software at all.

By: news trends

news trends — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

It looks like Google Analytics is now working for our sites. There was a delay for a while, but I think they just had to catch up with all the data pouring in. It’s mind-boggling to think how much data is coming in with so many websites feeding stats to Google. Google Analytics uses Urchin which is a far better product than most out there — webtrends, etc.

Combine it with Adwords and other ROI tracking tools and Urchin is very powerful. The google analytics package is offered by google for free — and it’s no lightwedight stats package — rather it’s one that you could expect to pay several hundred dollars per month for. The new Google Analytics is revolutionary in terms of the services it can provide for free — services that otherwise may not have been available for the little guy.

By: Hardik

Hardik — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

HI..
Just the you should know, StatCounter installs spyware into the visitors machines.

By: Piers Fawkes

Piers Fawkes — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Does it? Are you sure?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

No one remembers Orkut or Google Blog search.

Shame on you for trying to make google act like a corporation concerned with the "emotional impact" of their products. They're not making baby diapers here. They're innovating.

By: Piers Fawkes

Piers Fawkes — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

There’s no shame, dear reader from Atlanta. If you had read the older post about the Emperor’s New Clothes you would see that my arguement is that a company cannot defend itself on clever products alone. A company needs to create a valuable emotional bond between itself and the customer – something you fail to do if you are product focused not brand focused.

By: Tom Foremski

Tom Foremski — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

People will complain but, they will still go for value if they see a lot of value. The Google analytics tool they acquired was very well respected and cost several hundred dollars, so people will still see a lot of value despite the slow rollout.

But, why would you install Google "spyware" on your site? Yes, GOOG will give yo your analystics, but, it can aggregate incredibly detailed stats across a huge number of sites and keep that info for itself. Huge competitive advantage for an internet company, I would think.

By: robhyndman.com

robhyndman.com — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

World, Beta 1.0

PSFK grimaces at the dead-man-walking entrance of Google Analytics into the blogosphere. I agree, and like them have found the trusty Statcounter to be, well, trusty. But this is just another manifestation of the beta-ness of so much of what we use…