Comments on: Yahoo SiteExplorer web vs. API: answers from Yahoo!

By: RenegadeLatino

RenegadeLatino — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:44:57 +0000

Good stuff

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:16:55 +0000

Yeah I was thinking among the same lines...

By: Hyper Dog Media

Hyper Dog Media — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:24:56 +0000

It's surprising that site explorer isn't using the API. Would "the folks that control the access logs" be Google Analytics? Yahoo's "Full Analytics"? You'd think they could get a pretty good idea from these sources.

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:59:29 +0000

Well as the Yahoo rep states it, the API has somewhat more time to filter... It's a matter of resources, nothing else...

By: Sint

Sint — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:11:45 +0000

The statement of numbers being an estimation sounds clear, but why are they using two different methods of calculating the data? When you analyse data, it's acceptable that it's not 100% accurate, but it's confusing when these estimations are calculated differently.
I suppose one of them delivers the 'best' result, so why are they using the other methods if their data is less accurate?