Today I found Quarkbase and it makes me uncomfortable.
I’ve never been one for numbers. When it comes to my blogs, I’ve never really cared about my traffic numbers, never installed Google Analytics, never paid a huge amount of attention to my number of subscribers. Why? Because I love to write, and that’s why I have blogs. I am afraid that getting caught up in the numbers will work against me. I’ll start writing to up the numbers, and not because I want to write about something.
So Quarkbase makes me uncomfortable. Type in a URL and it tells you just about everything you ever wanted to know about that web site. It finds biographical information on the owners, if available, as well as traffic, popularity, technical specifications, ranking, Twitter mentions, and more. If you’re trying to figure out whether to advertise on a web site, this is a great tool. I, for one, just wish they offered a tool to keep your web site private.
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