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Excellent Analytics Tips #20: Measuring Digital "Brand Strength"

Occam's Razor

You can see that eBay (green) rose for a while but has been essentially flat. The graph shows the change over time, starting in Jan 2004. eBay's green line is very close the performance of the category (and you'll see that often at peaks in the shopping category queries, eBay actually does worse starting holiday season 2009).

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Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now?

thenextweb.com

Chris had been working on creating a better desktop search since early 2004, knowing that no existing solutions were any good. In fact, Loopt was itself acquired earlier this year, by banking company Green Dot for $43.4 Latin America. Middle East. Y Combinator’s first batch: where are they now? From small seeds grow mighty oaks.