Google Acquires Measure Map 60
WeAz writes "According to the Google Blog, Google has acquired Measure Map, an analytics system for blogs, from Adaptive Path. There is a limited beta test up and running over at the Measure Map Website. Many users have been using analytics to track stats on their sites - I wonder how this will stack up."
Are you sure? I doubt! (Score:5, Insightful)
To that statement, I say NO! It is incorrect, period. The [primary] purpose of any publicly traded company like Google, is to increase shareholder value. The only way to do this is to maximize profit. Please be informed that Google is not in the charity business.
Re:Are you sure? I doubt! (Score:1, Troll)
Is this some sort of sage knowledge that you are imparting? Some nugget that dropped from a spaceship into your back yard?
Re:Are you sure? I doubt! (Score:2)
Actually, given some of the attitudes around slashdot about Google you'd think this is some great wisdom. There are a TON of users who think that the companies they champion (in this case Google) aren't in it for the profit, they're in it for the technology. Infact the GP stated just that.
This is where the odd idea that Google will never be another Microsoft comes from. Once you accept that Google is there to make a profit you'll understand that
Re:Are you sure? I doubt! (Score:1)
Re:Are you sure? I doubt! (Score:2)
China...
Re:Are you sure? I doubt! (Score:1)
doesn't work that way (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:GOOG (Score:2)
Limited beta... (Score:2, Funny)
Got an invitation? (Score:1)
Re:Limited beta... (Score:1)
Damit, Google - enough! (Score:1)
And now that google owns it, it'll be invitation-only for the next two years, and it'll be stuck in beta 'till the end of time.
Google Beta (Score:5, Funny)
In an article about Google that's redundant.
Accounts (Score:1)
Re:Accounts (Score:3, Interesting)
After all, if that's not the case, why would they have this as a separate product?
Not about Blogs (Score:5, Insightful)
Measure Map Information (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Measure Map Information (Score:3, Informative)
It also logs "posts viewed" as including ones visited by spammers, along with counting the spam comments, even though WordPress ignores them completely, or just sticks them straight into the spam filters.
I suppose it's OK, it just didn't seem as accurate or worthwhile as some of the other stats packages I've used.
"Treasure Map" (Score:3, Funny)
OK everyone, back to your cubicles.
But why? (Score:4, Insightful)
Or, is Google taking a clue from MS and buying up any potential competitor?
Re:But why? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:But why? (Score:1)
Re:But why? (Score:2)
Mmmm.. Yummy statistics... (Score:2)
just what I need... (Score:5, Funny)
Measure Map helps you understand what people do at your blog, and what influence you are having on the world.
Great, exactly what my ego needs, a blog-equivalent of the Total Perspective Vortex [hhgproject.org]
Visitors today: your grandmother and one accidental click-through.
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sigh...
Re:just what I need... (Score:1, Troll)
Re:just what I need... (Score:1)
It just told me what I knew all the time. I'm a really terrific and great guy.
demographic, geography, link charts? (Score:1)
So, is the idea that this would also be folded into tracking Google Ads on the same blogs, and aid in further sifting through the click-throughs to bid up AdSense keywords?
Or is it just a neat little nice-to-have-thingy that everyone and their sister will put on their blog?
Re:demographic, geography, link charts? (Score:1)
Of course that's the idea, but it will be done in a way that makes it look like a neat little nice-to-have-thingy that everyone and their sister will put on their blog. Google is an advertisment company. That's all they are and all they ever will be. Even the "Do No Evil" thing is marketing. Every thing they do is design to make
Re:demographic, geography, link charts? (Score:2)
Sounds to Me Like... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sounds to Me Like... (Score:1)
http://saccharomyces.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com]
A lot of "best and brightest" already have jobs (Score:2)
Welcome News to the Chinese Government (Score:1)
MeasureMap is powered by Ruby on Rails (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:MeasureMap is powered by Ruby on Rails (Score:1)
Re:MeasureMap is powered by Ruby on Rails (Score:2)
Ruby on rails is nice and all, but it still has a little much of that "Ooh! Shiny!"
Re:MeasureMap is powered by Ruby on Rails (Score:2)
I mean, I'm doing a bunch of RoR work on the side right now, and even I had a hard time caring about this. Although I guess it must be a nice ego boost for DHH and Adaptive Path.
Re:MeasureMap is powered by Ruby on Rails (Score:1)
Re:MeasureMap is powered by Ruby on Rails (Score:2)
Being a Ruby app should make the Google rewrite to Python easier.
Priorities (Score:1)
- people can register
- current users can add sites
I'm sure that while they mean well, they'll turn measuremap into a 'first in first served' system that gets overwhelmed, then locked down, then just sits there for months. Just like analytics.
Why they needed to buy measuremaps instead of write an additional module for analytics is confusing too. At a glance it looks like most of measuremaps is geotracking - whi
excellent... (Score:1)
So.... (Score:2, Interesting)
Well color me shocked!
I was also wondering when todays Google story would hit. They are becoming masters of pacing themselves so that at least one thing they do every day gets noted as "newsworthy" to keep them in the spotlight.
Google Aquires OSTG (Score:4, Funny)
Aww please no! (Score:2)
Google the Pirate? (Score:1)
I think I've been playing too much Pirates! [2kgames.com] lately...
How about trying ClustrMaps? (Score:1)
Damn Closed Beta Crap! (Score:1)
Measure Map and usability (Score:2, Informative)
Google Analytics (from what I can see of the screenshots on Google's website) has a very static, statistical appearance to the way it presents data. Measure Map seems to be taking a different approach - a less cluttered appearance than analytics, selectively showing key website stats (rather than showing everything at once) but still letting users drill further i
Buying a non-public beta? (Score:2)