Big Company Tries to Scare Little Guy Into Submission (same old story…)

Ron @ Statsaholic.com (formerly Alexaholic.com) looks to be in a bit of trouble with Alexa.

Seems they’re suddenly decided his mashup of the their traffic data & charts is a bad thing and they’re blocking his site from displaying it.

So anti Web 2.0, anti-consumer, anti-information.  Is Alexa so egotisitcal that they think their platform can’t be improved upon?  Everything can be tweaked, added to, niche’ed to provide greater value to a subset of internet users, and that’s exactly what Ron is doing here.

I think some of the “big” companies don’t understand that this type of thing actually provides them more exposure & thus more traffic, in the end, rather then detract from their site.

And a big bummer for all us fans of Statsaholic.com - the mashups there are awesome.

I don’t agree with Alexa’s action - Ron is clear on the site the the data comes from Alexa, there’s no misrepresentation or shadiness.  And he makes a point - Alexa is not without competition.

Digg Ron’s story - and visit Statsaholic to read more.

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