[thelist] Google release code analysis of a lot of web sites

Christian Heilmann codepo8 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 26 05:51:36 CST 2006


> > Interesting bit, that:
> >
> > "In December 2005 we did an analysis of a sample of slightly over a
> > billion documents, extracting information about popular class names,
> > elements, attributes, and related metadata. The results we found are
> > available below. We hope this is of use!"
> >
> > http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/elements.html
>
> Unfortunately the actual data is totally inaccessible since it's
> hidden in SVG graphics, one of the least supported Internet formats.
>
> An excellent example of how not to publish your data.

True, on the plus side it made me finally upgrade my Firefox.

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