Comments on: Hitwise: Can You Trust Hitwise? http://www.johnon.com/688/hitwise-ripoff-report.html I think there's an opinion on that subject lying around here somewhere.... Thu, 23 May 2013 22:41:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Hemden http://www.johnon.com/688/hitwise-ripoff-report.html#comment-129651 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:31:06 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/688/hitwise-ripoff-report.html#comment-129651 Very Poor from Hitwise to apologize after your article was online. Shame on them! Very Poor from Hitwise to apologize after your article was online. Shame on them!

]]> by: Markis http://www.johnon.com/688/hitwise-ripoff-report.html#comment-129614 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:46:33 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/688/hitwise-ripoff-report.html#comment-129614 Justin, that is true..Hitwise does gather information and resell it to anyone who offers up some green. I think that this is true as well. That seems unethical to me..but I guess the internet is a place where bad behavior thrives. Justin, that is true..Hitwise does gather information and resell it to anyone who offers up some green. I think that this is true as well. That seems unethical to me..but I guess the internet is a place where bad behavior thrives.

]]> by: Justin Goldberg http://www.johnon.com/688/hitwise-ripoff-report.html#comment-129403 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:44:04 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/688/hitwise-ripoff-report.html#comment-129403 Hitwise gets data sold from ISPs and sells it to anyone, including domain squatters. Someone blogged about searching for their domain, it didn't exist at all and never was registered before, and the next day someone had registered it. I read it on the internet somewhere, so it MUST be true! Hitwise gets data sold from ISPs and sells it to anyone, including domain squatters.

Someone blogged about searching for their domain, it didn’t exist at all and never was registered before, and the next day someone had registered it.

I read it on the internet somewhere, so it MUST be true!

]]> by: Don http://www.johnon.com/688/hitwise-ripoff-report.html#comment-129132 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:21:10 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/688/hitwise-ripoff-report.html#comment-129132 Dodgy Unethical Bastards. The thing is they had the hide to think that they could get away with it. Dodgy Unethical Bastards. The thing is they had the hide to think that they could get away with it.

]]> by: grasshopper http://www.johnon.com/688/hitwise-ripoff-report.html#comment-129119 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:07:45 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/688/hitwise-ripoff-report.html#comment-129119 Hitwise is not a company that anyone concerned with data accuracy should do business with. Even their data collection methodology (they purchase usage data from low-end ISPs like NetZero) skews any subsequent conclusions that they arrive at regarding what "average" users do online. "Average" users in 2009 are all still on shitty $9.95 a month NetZero dial-up? That's your data set? Really? Yikes. So if their idea of insight and analysis is ripping off other people's work, filtering it through a minunderstanding of fundamental principles of mathematics, and then selling their garbled plaigarism to a bunch of deep-pocketed corporate rubes, I can't say I'm surprised. Hitwise is not a company that anyone concerned with data accuracy should do business with. Even their data collection methodology (they purchase usage data from low-end ISPs like NetZero) skews any subsequent conclusions that they arrive at regarding what “average” users do online.

“Average” users in 2009 are all still on shitty $9.95 a month NetZero dial-up? That’s your data set? Really? Yikes.

So if their idea of insight and analysis is ripping off other people’s work, filtering it through a minunderstanding of fundamental principles of mathematics, and then selling their garbled plaigarism to a bunch of deep-pocketed corporate rubes, I can’t say I’m surprised.

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