All of this talk about basing the traffic for an entire continent based on 45k people running toolbars is crazy. Where is the open source metrics toolbar that works with Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Firefox and Safari? Why hasn't someone built one yet? How insightful would Bill Tancer at Hitwise be if he was analyzing what is really happening out on the interweb instead of guesstimates of traffic flow?

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