Comments on: I quantified this site http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/11/11/i-quantified-this-site/ dawn friedman's blog Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:26:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Jody http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/11/11/i-quantified-this-site/#comment-6390 Jody Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:28:42 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1721#comment-6390 QuantSite uses statistical modeling and some form of cookies (possibly tracking where people go) to estimate this stuff. They get some sense of how many people are visiting a site, what its keywords are, and then extrapolate from that information to their larger database. We all carry so many of these free-floating tracking cookies, it's hard to know whether we're participants in these sorts of databases or not. (BTW, I fit that profile exactly.) QuantSite uses statistical modeling and some form of cookies (possibly tracking where people go) to estimate this stuff. They get some sense of how many people are visiting a site, what its keywords are, and then extrapolate from that information to their larger database.

We all carry so many of these free-floating tracking cookies, it’s hard to know whether we’re participants in these sorts of databases or not.

(BTW, I fit that profile exactly.)

]]> By: chanie http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/11/11/i-quantified-this-site/#comment-6389 chanie Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:56:26 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1721#comment-6389 yeah, how does it know this? meanwhile, i'm a non US based reader, and you can check off all three of those for me! yeah, how does it know this?
meanwhile, i’m a non US based reader, and you can check off all three of those for me!

]]> By: Kirsten http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/11/11/i-quantified-this-site/#comment-6388 Kirsten Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:23:16 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1721#comment-6388 That is freaky that it can figure that stuff out, if it's right. (As for me, woman, tick, grad school, tick, but not in either of those age groups.) That is freaky that it can figure that stuff out, if it’s right. (As for me, woman, tick, grad school, tick, but not in either of those age groups.)

]]> By: Susan http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/11/11/i-quantified-this-site/#comment-6387 Susan Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:46:29 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1721#comment-6387 That's what I'm wondering, too--surely my ISP isn't sending along my resume with whatever identifying info about location?!? That’s what I’m wondering, too–surely my ISP isn’t sending along my resume with whatever identifying info about location?!?

]]> By: Lisa V http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/11/11/i-quantified-this-site/#comment-6386 Lisa V Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:19:31 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1721#comment-6386 How does it know this stuff? How does it know this stuff?

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