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Digging Alexa – how the geek demographic doubled overnight It seems to have passed without huge fanfare, but on April 20th 2006, the Alexa rankings for tech sites around the globe suddenly doubled, literally overnight. (tags: blog web internet blogs culture search interesting technology tech toread statistics analytics articles imported journalism metafilter Digg traffic alexa [...]