Something better than PR to see how you're doing?

Is a9.com showing some helpful stats?

[lunarboy1]

[a9.com...] is Amazon's new search engine. It uses Google's results, BUT provides Site Info boxes after each result. It gives a "Traffic Rank", a "Sites that Link Here" count, a Site Speed (how fast your page came up i guess), and how long you've existed.

Is this going to provide us with more useful information to assess to see how our a site of ours is doing? Where do the stats come from? Google's crawl or does Amazon have their own crawler to get this info?

Since the results are the same as on Google.com I assume that the numbers are from Google and they are used to help determine PR or used inconjunction with PR to determine your rank.

I've talked enough, what are your thoughts?

[edited by: Marcia at 4:22 am (utc) on April 15, 2004]
[edit reason] All links have to be clickable. [/edit]

[glitterball]

I just checked some of my sites with metricsmarket.com (I'd never used it before), - pretty good.
The estimates for my bigger sites were pretty much on the money (give or take a little).

[blaze]

Not public anyway, but look at who owns the majority of the backbone and routers. THey know just about EVERYTHING.

Maybe they know about bandwidth, but that doesn't tell the whole story.

I think they'd have to disclose if they were opening up packets. I'm not sure their customers would stand for that unless there was a court order..