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John Chow holding a contest to give away a brand new Apple iPad. To enter, all you have to do is blog and tweet about it. The contest is being sponsored by Urban Data, a website that gives you advanced information about any website on the Internet.


I tried using Urban Data for CS and MariaMasungit, unfortunately UrbanData seems to be targeted only for websites and not blogs.

So I tried some of my favorite sites
1. Kikay Exchange - I was a bit confused about the results here. It seems they were trying to pull the data of Exchage(dot)ph instead of the whole site.

2. Yugatech- I have hit gold! By gold, I mean, data results. I won't put it here though, for fear of threading on copyright infringement of what nots.

Urban Data pulls out web hosting information, Company Information (which includes owner details and location), some of the most recent posts, statistics and traffic information, and it even tracks down buzz from related social networks and other websites. Very impressive. Yugatech has a pagerank of 5.

3. House on a hill- Just one last try. I am also a frequent lurker on this site. I was a bit surprised that UrbanData failed to pull any information on this site. It simply refreshes. It doesn't even have the decency to tell me that it failed. House on a hill uses the same web host as Yugatech but it's url ends with (dot)net.

I can't be sure, but probably Urban Data can only gather information on (dot)com websites. Yet, I was able to successfully gather data on Greenpeace.org, Earthligorgeous and southbound.ph

Is it a case on just (dot) net websites then? I tried PinoyCook.net. But it also pulled data on this successfully.
I am running out of hypotheses here.

Oh well. This is supposed to be a post about the giveaway. It turned into a detective case.
~curious_girl/Maria


Who is Maria?