Does anyone think Alexa is worth the bandwidth?

[littleman]

I know many blacklist their bot, but does anyone think it is worth all the prodding and poking?

[Mike_Mackin]

[alexa.com...]

"Archive of the Web: Serves pages that are no longer available, virtually eliminating dead links"

Read: once they get a page, they keep it forever.

Remember that private home page you [ not YOU littleman - lol] built 2 years ago that had a picture of you in a mini-bikini sitting on your old boyfriends lap with a beer in each hand? *THEY GOT IT*

"We are currently gathering in excess of 118 gigabytes of information per day."
jezzzzzzz

[littleman]

Very good point Mike. That was funny.

[jeremy goodrich]

So they archive stuff permanently? I don't like that idea. Even if they didn't, the information isn't publically available, they make you pay for it. And we already paid once, by virtue of the bandwidth that was utilized, and the servers, etc. to put up those very pages they are appropriating.

Though, imagining the kind of data mining they could put together based on all that data...it could be huge. Very, very useful. They benefit, though, and not the common net user.

[Mike_Mackin]

[archive.org...] is "partner"

[jeremy goodrich]

Oops. I think I vaguely recall something about that before. My bad.

Still, it does give me the creeps. I don't know that I like anybody archiving my information, I might publish it, but isnt' it protected under the DMCA? So this is not a violation how?

This reminds me of the debate over the google cache.

[theperlyking]

I've lost count of how many times google's cache has helped me when the original page is gone, but someone charging for this seems wrong to me.

Archive.org are using dm-extreme, its *fun* looking at other peoples hits: [212.142.37.162...]