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The origin story of Google Analytics

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Re: The origin story of Google Analytics

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Post by Anthony-G »

fzn wrote: post #7

Urchin 4 continued our tradition of supporting way, way too many random platforms (Google still has Urchin 4 help: check out the OS support… ever heard of Yellow Dog Linux?). Heck yeah! Yellow Dog was one of first GNU/Linux distro I attempted to use, back in 2k2 (Or was it SUSE 6.4? Both ran too sluggishly for desktop use on my 5400/120, tho.) Here's the trial Urchin 5 for RedHat 6, btw. https://web.archive.org/web/2…

While many web users don’t know that utm in a URL stands for Urchin Traffic Monitor, there are also Red Hat users who don’t realise that yum stands for Yellowdog Updater, Modified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowdog_Updater,_Modified

Re: The origin story of Google Analytics

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Post by cm2012 »

jgalt212 wrote: post #29

> But the real killer feature IMHO, which was released in Urchin 6, was individual visitor history drill-down. If this sounds potentially, um, sensitive, that’s because it is. Google wouldn’t touch this feature and it was summarily axed, never to return. Any word on what this feature was? And do others currently offer an equivalent?

No one touches PII

Re: The origin story of Google Analytics

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Post by EvanAnderson »

jgalt212 wrote: post #28
Florin_Andrei wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, that was coax Ethernet.

with the vampire taps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_tap

Thin-wire Ethernet didn't use vampire taps, however. Everything was terminated in BNCs.

Re: The origin story of Google Analytics

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Post by vgeek »

jgalt212 wrote: post #29

> But the real killer feature IMHO, which was released in Urchin 6, was individual visitor history drill-down. If this sounds potentially, um, sensitive, that’s because it is. Google wouldn’t touch this feature and it was summarily axed, never to return. Any word on what this feature was? And do others currently offer an equivalent?

Piwik offers per user session tracking.

Re: The origin story of Google Analytics

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Post by jgalt212 »

cm2012 wrote: post #32
jgalt212 wrote: post #29

> But the real killer feature IMHO, which was released in Urchin 6, was individual visitor history drill-down. If this sounds potentially, um, sensitive, that’s because it is. Google wouldn’t touch this feature and it was summarily axed, never to return. Any word on what this feature was? And do others currently offer an equivalent?

No one touches PII

I'm not so sure that's true. Especially, when you leave the ad-tech arena move on to the app monitoring arena where none of the PII data would leave the house (or there is certainly less of an incentive for the PII data to leave the house).

Re: The origin story of Google Analytics

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Post by Gevuloth »

keepper wrote: post #27
chamakits wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember Yellow Dog Linux ONLY because it was the official Linux Distribution supported by the PS3. Didn't use it enough to know how it distinguished itself from other distros beyond that, but thats enough of a distinction for me!

They live on in a small tool they built... The Yellowdog Updater, Modified. Now just known as yum.

Now superceded by dnf on Fedora, sadly.
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