The Wall Street Journal reported last night that Google is close to offering a website ranking service that would compete with Alexa as well as the paid offerings from Comscore and Nielson Online. Google’s service will of course be free and instantly sent shares of ComScore (SCOR) down in late trading. This is particularly interesting [...]

I’m not sure what’s going on with the internet tonight, but some of the most popular sites around seem to be down! On top of that, host-tracker, one of the larger up-time tracking/monitoring sites is also down (so I didn’t even get an alert about some of the other sites). As of 10:30pm on Sunday [...]