About a week ago we wrote about Google Trends and their new addition to the service which adds a numeric scale for better comparisons. Now this week they've added yet another new feature, but this time it's called Trends for Websites. It officially launched on Friday, and it's a nice way to track how popular websites are over time.

When you go to Google Trends (trends.google.com), just look towards the bottom of the page

Up until recently, Alexa has been best known for ranking websites based upon users who have installed the Alexa Toolbar. Because they only used the toolbar to determine a sites' ranking, they have been highly criticized and many people have discounted the benefit and usefulness of Alexa saying that it is inaccurate. People have been asking Alexa to change the way they determine rankings for quite a while and now Alexa has responded. As

Not long ago, Google.com stood at #2 on Alexa.com's list of most visited websites around the World. They've had their #2 spot taken away though and now the list looks like this:

1. Yahoo
2. YouTube
3. Windows Live
4. Google
5. MSN

It's true, Google lost their spot on the list to their very own YouTube which they acquired back in October of 2006. An interesting article over

You’ve probably heard of Statsaholic by now.  It was formerly named Alexaholic, and the service allowed you to enter up to five different domains and compare their Alexa traffic statistics. They called it traffic comparisons on steroids, and it did everything that Alexa probably should have done from the start. It was a better product.

When Statsaholic first emerged, it turned out to be better than Alexa itself. 

Just a few days ago, Alexa added some noticeable improvements to their Traffic details page. This information is helpful to publishers, and gives them a better idea of who their traffic is, and where it’s coming from.

One of the first things you’ll notice is that you can see where traffic is coming from geographically.  For example, I pulled up the traffic rankings for CyberNet, and it shows that

Seeing that Google just opened their doors to new registrations it was a sure thing that they would really start to promote the service. In classic Google fashion they thought outside the box in order to include humor in discussing Gmail's biggest features. Don't understand? Let me present to you Gmail Theater (yes, this was really created by Google):