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Whaddayaknow, maybe Alexa is the problem! Compete.com shows exactly the opposite trends with increasing 2007 traffic to all the 2.0 sites mentioned. (http://snapshot.compete.com/techcrunch.com+technorati.com+gigaom.com+)

Is there any consensus on which of these sites (Alexa or Compete) is more reliable? Or at least...less unreliable?

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I don't know much about Compete, but Alexa stinks. It's a small, self-selected group of users that in no way represents the Internet at large.

I'm not the only one who thinks so: http://franticindustries.com/blog/2006/12/18/why-alexa-sucks/

I've had questionable trends from either one. I can't say which I find more consistently reliable, but it'd probably be on a case-by-case basis on whichever results are skewed in my favor. ;)

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