argument against wordtracker
the argument against wordtracker says that wordtracker gets its data
from the metacrawlers, and that no one searches the metacrawlers,
but where do the metcrawlers get its data from, the search engines
this is from wordtracker...
Where do Wordtracker's keywords come from?
We get our US data from metacrawlers, rather than the search engines themselves. The metacrawlers contain the results from the search engines.
To be fair we do make an assumption. We assume that people will search for the same things regardless of whether they use a search engine like Yahoo! (Yahoo!) or a metacrawler like Metacrawler. The argument can be raised that many new people who have just joined the internet wouldn't know a metacrawler if it jumped out at them. But then... it works both ways. There are many portals which use metacrawlers for searching the web (Product reviews and prices, software downloads, and tech news - CNET for example).
We believe that a user (especially a new user) would see a search box as a search box; they are not interested in the technology that provides them with their results. Also remember that a metacrawler uses the major search engines for its results!
We have found a great deal of similarity between the results from search engines and metacrawlers. Concrete examples can be found by comparing our top 100 lists to those of Altavista, Lycos, Searchterms.com, Searchwords.com and an analysis of 1 billion top Altavista searches from 1999.
The other great thing about metacrawler results is that we do not have to contend with the skew from people using software robots checking keyword positions. All in all, it works out pretty well.
Our UK keywords come from ISP data. Unfortunately we can't be more specific about where our data comes from due to contractual obligations.
from the metacrawlers, and that no one searches the metacrawlers,
but where do the metcrawlers get its data from, the search engines
this is from wordtracker...
Where do Wordtracker's keywords come from?
We get our US data from metacrawlers, rather than the search engines themselves. The metacrawlers contain the results from the search engines.
To be fair we do make an assumption. We assume that people will search for the same things regardless of whether they use a search engine like Yahoo! (Yahoo!) or a metacrawler like Metacrawler. The argument can be raised that many new people who have just joined the internet wouldn't know a metacrawler if it jumped out at them. But then... it works both ways. There are many portals which use metacrawlers for searching the web (Product reviews and prices, software downloads, and tech news - CNET for example).
We believe that a user (especially a new user) would see a search box as a search box; they are not interested in the technology that provides them with their results. Also remember that a metacrawler uses the major search engines for its results!
We have found a great deal of similarity between the results from search engines and metacrawlers. Concrete examples can be found by comparing our top 100 lists to those of Altavista, Lycos, Searchterms.com, Searchwords.com and an analysis of 1 billion top Altavista searches from 1999.
The other great thing about metacrawler results is that we do not have to contend with the skew from people using software robots checking keyword positions. All in all, it works out pretty well.
Our UK keywords come from ISP data. Unfortunately we can't be more specific about where our data comes from due to contractual obligations.
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