Google announced that their web analysis product Urchin has been renamed Google Analytics and has been made free – however not everyone is happy with the result!
The downside of free
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4 responses to “The downside of free”
Good reblog Tom – good to see the other side of this story – very valid point of view.
keith
Thanks Keith,
Cheers,
Tom
Analytics This!
Apparently Google is taking over the world. After buying Urchin, Google has finally decided to make the website analysis tool free! Sounds good to me, but not to people who already used it apparently. It must be frustrating for paying customers to …
[…] I’m not alone in my views. Tom provided a nice link to someone else’s blog that echoes my feelings Like me they had problems logging in following the changeover and like me they are none too happy with the changes. I think the last comment pretty much sums it up: Google isn’t acting like a real business, they are acting like an over-enthusiastic Golden Retriever puppy. Oh, they just knocked the vase off the table with their tail, but aren’t they cute? Um, no. Google, grow up. […]