Hi, all -

What I have *read* is that Alexa's ratings only rate and include other sites that have the Alexa toolbar *installed.*

While it is not a perfect system, it is apparently reasonably accurate in its partial relevance to all sites, ranking one to the others. I also have it installed and use it quite frequently.

Hope this helps,

Chip Tarver

> Bob -

> I've not tried them. However, after reading
> how useful Alexa was (is), I decided to give
> it a try. I really like it so far. And they
> don't hide the fact that they will report
> back some of your information. I don't yet
> understand their ranking system but it *is*
> quite interesting. For example, eBay's rank
> is 10. Well, as compared to what? All sites?
> Auction sites? Dog training sites? (Sorry
> Adam. (g) ) You can get all the info you
> want on a site about ranking, who's behind
> it, etc. as long as the information is
> available. It seems to be available for most
> sites that I've seen.

> Rick Smith, "The Net Guerrilla"