LOL @ Alexa

[Hammer]

It could actually be a very good litmus test if IE and FF had Alexa automatically added to their toolbars instead of only counting hits from surfers with the Alexa toolbar installed.

[Jace]

Originally Posted by Hammer

It could actually be a very good litmus test if IE and FF had Alexa automatically added to their toolbars instead of only counting hits from surfers with the Alexa toolbar installed.

microsoft xp comes with alexa built into IE on most systems

[Hammer]

Originally Posted by Jace

microsoft xp comes with alexa built into IE on most systems

Not exactly. There is a 'releated info' sidebar option that displays information provided by Alexa, but it is not the same thing as the Alexa toolbar and a surfers hits are not counted to your site unless he leaves the sidebar open while surfing or actually installed the Alexa toolbar, which must be done manually.

http://pages.alexa.com/exec/faqsidos....html?index=65

[Jace]

Originally Posted by Hammer

Not exactly. There is a 'releated info' sidebar option that displays information provided by Alexa, but it is not the same thing as the Alexa toolbar and a surfers hits are not counted to your site unless he leaves the sidebar open while surfing or actually installed the Alexa toolbar, which must be done manually.

http://pages.alexa.com/exec/faqsidos....html?index=65

the past 3 systems that I have installed windows xp on this month have had alexa automatically on there...I install windows xp, run spybot, and it is always there...i guess spybot is wrong or something, but these are fresh installs, and alexa is always there

in fact I just did a fresh install last week of windows on this laptop I am on, and sure enough, I ran spybot after the install and alexa had to be deleted