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Alexa made the list of top 1,000,000 available for free. Everyone can download it for free from this link. Alexa used to sell the list until now for $6500.
There are many ways to can use the data to analyze popularity and the trafic for websites. Alexa rank can be manipulated and is based on the [...]

When a page reaches some top social bookmarking sites, the position of in SERP(Search Engine Results Page) and the page rank are improved only for a limited time period. When the page disappears from the bookmarking sites, the position in SERP tend to come back to the old position and rank.
The benefits can not be [...]

Cuil goes down, Google is still up

Cuil was just released today as a Google alternative stating that it’s bigger, better and smarter. After a few hours the Cuil was released it’s going down. Seems the people can’t wait to try a better alternative to google and they assaulted Cuil:

Yahoo releases ymail.com

For me it it seems that the 2 giants are getting more and more similar. Initially was Yahoo. Then Google was born. Many were using Yahoo mail when Google released gmail. I noticed that slowly www.gmail.com(which was initially the place where to see your gmail if you remember) was moved under mail.google.com similar to what [...]

Reddit goes open sourced

Reddit released the code on which the website is based to the open source comunity. The code can be downloaded from http://code.reddit.com/ under Common Public Attribution License. The code can be used in commercial purposes but all the changes must be published.