Comments on: Microsoft Gatineau

By: Marc Levy

Marc Levy — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:55:16 +0000

Thanks Richard, signed up and waiting for my email invite

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:52:31 +0000

Hi Marc

Not live, but accepting sign-ups. Need to have an Adcenter account.

Rgds
Richard

By: Marc Levy

Marc Levy — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:42:39 +0000

Sounds exciting, please be sure to update us the minute this becomes live!

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:58:32 +0000

This battle is going to be epic. Cant even begin to speculate when this might be released, although I did enquire, and some time frames were mentioned – duct tape I’m afraid. But I cant bloody wait!

Rgds
Richard

By: McAWilliams

McAWilliams — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:21:23 +0000

Have you had any indications on when this may well get released sounds cool.

By: dockarl

dockarl — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:51:21 +0000

And the spoils are…

WORLD DOMINATION..

mya ha ha

By: dockarl

dockarl — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:49:35 +0000

Hi Richard!

That was an interesting post – I wasn’t even aware of the existence of this – the name sounds like some form of french dessert

Anyone that’s anyone knows that the search is facing a massive problem at the moment – how to assess the ‘popularity’ of a site when simple metrics like PR and traffic are now so inextricably linked to your position in the very search engine that it trying to model your popularity.

They need more data – and the metrics they need are things like bounce rates, traffic patterns, time spent on site, exit page etc etc.. surprise surprise – sounds a bit like analytics ‘eh? Google didn’t just pay millions for urchin out of the goodness of their hearts because they are some great benevolent corporate giant.

This will be a hefty battle indeed, and to the victor will come the spoils.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:21:01 +0000

Hi Paul

I suppose duct tape will fall off when they launch the product…

Google give nicely rapped up reports of aggregate data. I think I can safely say that Gatineau will bring depth to data that will add new ways of viewing your visitors/customers. DaveN mentions some features that are pretty cool on his blog post. Cant say much more as I’m afraid.

Best rgds
Richard

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Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:09:49 +0000

[...] here’s the live login page for Microsoft’s Gatineau web analytics software, courtesy of Red Cardinal. (via [...]

By: Paul Browne - Technology and People

Paul Browne - Technology and People — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:18:11 +0000

Richard,

it’s really going to be awesome to have such granular information about your visitors/customers

When do you get the duct-tape (sorry NDA) lifted ? I’ve always felt that Google analytics is pretty good (for what I need) and I’m Intruiged by what Microsoft are offering on top of this …

Paul

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:36:38 +0000

I cant say much Alan, but Reeves had a lot of feedback after our session. My guess is they’re going to move mountains to get this right, and if they do it should really put the cat amongst the pigeons. I’m very much in the same camp as you re giving too much data to Google. I think this is the case for many people, and given that Gatineau is going to offer features that *might* put Google to shame I think it’s fair to say MS will get a lot of converts.

Rgds
Richard

By: Alan O'Rourke

Alan O'Rourke — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:22:48 +0000

As long as they get the usability right. I have seen many products with better features fall by the wayside because they concentrated too much on the data and not enough of the user(s) experience and presenting that data clearly. Microsoft has many such products. I am not saying Google is better, in fact googles usability is terrible in many cases but they already have the market share. If Microsoft take that long to make iterations they wont get far and knowing how slowly the giant moves i am not optimistic . I hope i am wrong as i am not comfortable with how much i rely on google services. Hey Microsoft, if you want a hand with your user interface give me a shout

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:17:01 +0000

Hi Tom

Nah – I just noticed it on Google. The service is in closed alpha (or beta?) currently, so I’m not 100% sure what the rationale is for the login there (tease?). If you look very, very hard you might find a few sites running Gatineau I imagine.

Rgds
Richard

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:02:54 +0000

Richard,

could you get that login to work? It keeps throwing me back to the login screen.