Look up Website Information
Many businesses look up information about prospective employees and business partners on the Internet in an information gathering process.
Journalists need to find information for research as well. There are additional parties and reasons for looking up website information.
One great service that displays lots of information is Quarkbase which uses the tagline "Everything about a website". It's definitely not everything but it is more than you might expect.
The service is free and you can enter an URL in the search form or a name that can be associated with the website. The system accepts google.com, Google or Google inc for example.
Information is divided into a quick excerpt at the top with the most important information like the company name, founder, number of employees, some traffic ranks and blog URL right there.
A custom introduction follows that offers a description, contact information and a listing of similar & related sites.
The rest of the details is divided into the categories Popular, Traffic, People, Spotlight, Company and Technical; each contains a wealth of information about the website and company.
Popular refers to social popularity, bookmarks at Delicious, pages posted on Digg and Reddit, blog reactions from Technorati,references in Yahoo Answers, inbound links from Wikipedia, Digg frontpage occurrences and comments on Stumbleupon.
That's not all. You get popular pages of the week, all time popular pages and feed urls in the same category. That alone is an amazing amount of information. But that was only the Popular category.
Traffic seems to utilize information from Alexa which is not that reliable but a good indicator nevertheless in most cases.
People lists people that are associated with the domain name or company. If available their title is listed as well.
Spotlights pulls the latest references from Twitter, Techcrunch, Google News, Get Satisfaction and from Technorati if those references are available.
Technical is the last category which lists information about the web server, location, nameservers and the like.
The tool is rather extensive and well done. It could improve the traffic section by using other sources which would be nice. Other than that it gives a great overview of a domain name or company name you enter.
Popular websites are already in the index. If you request information about a website for the first time (I entered rarst.net to test it out) it is shows a progress bar and it usually takes a bit longer before the information is provided.
Update: Quarkbase is no longer available, you can use a service like Dataopedia instead which is providing you with similar information.
Update 2: Dataopedia is not available anymore as well. Use something like SimilarWeb instead for basic information.
Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.
When will you put an end to the mess in the comments?
Ghacks comments have been broken for too long. What article did you see this comment on? Reply below. If we get to 20 different articles we should all stop using the site in protest.
I posted this on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/] so please reply if you see it on a different article.
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Article Title: Reddit enforces user activity tracking on site to push advertising revenue
Article URL: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
No surprises here. This is just the beginning really. I cannot see a valid reason as to why anyone would continue to use the platform anymore when there are enough alternatives fill that void.
I’m not sure if there is a point in commenting given that comments seem to appear under random posts now, but I’ll try… this comment is for https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
My temporary “solution”, if you can call it that, is to use a VPN (Mullvad in my case) to sign up for and access Reddit via a European connection. I’m doing that with pretty much everything now, at least until the rest of the world catches up with GDPR. I don’t think GDPR is a magical privacy solution but it’s at least a first step.