[WEB4LIB] britannica site stats

[Greg Notess]

	As Danny pointed out, the information is still available from the Alexa
client, but apparently Britannica no longer includes that information in
its records for its Internet directory ("World's Best Sites") section. If
you are teaching using a recent version of Netscape, that information is
also available even without downloading the Alexa client. Just click on the
What's Related button to the right of the URL and then on Site Info. The
full site information is not available for all sites, but for many it
includes owner, date established, popularity, and more. All of that
information is drawn from Alexa's database.
	To get the same information with IE5, it looks like you have to load the
full Alexa add-on. Related links information is available under the IE5
Tools menu and Related links, but the owner, date established, and
popularity measures are not.

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At 11:43 AM 12/4/99 -0800, Tomaiuolo, Nicholas (Library) wrote:
>Greetings colleagues,
>This has probably been covered already, but perhaps Mr. Notess or Mr.
>Sullivan, or any of the host of experts can tell me what became of the "site
>Statistics" (via Alexa) that once accompanied "hits" from britannica.com's
>Rated Web Search?  I thought that this was an excellent feature to point out
>to users who were interested in who "produced" the site and "how popular" it
>was.
>Any thoughts, anybody??