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Google's Lies . . .

• https://www.ericpetersautos.com by Eric

It might try not being dishonest, as a start.

I just got a "report" from Google Analytics (sic) which tells me this web site had 32.1k visitors in January. This is a lie, which can be proved by referencing the fact that just one article – First, They Lied About the Range – that was published on this site last month (January 27th) received 34,303 "visits" – and that was last time I checked, a few days ago.

Unless all of the other articles published on the site last month – which amounts to something on the order of 30 of them, as I usually publish at least one new article every day, each day of ever month – had zero "visits,"  then the math – as the saying goes – doesn't add up.

So I decided to do some re-figuring. The five "political" columns posted during the final five days days of January – from the 27th to the 31st – all by themselves account for 10,593 "visits." This encompasses the following articles: Electric Wave Cresting (2,039 "visits"), Sound Police (1,752 "visits"), When Gas Mileage Mattered (1,875 "visits"), It's a Riot (1,790 "visits") Toyota Transitions (2,080 "visits") and The Problem with Policing (1,058 "visits"). During the same time period, there were also several additional articles published, including car reviews and features, along with a couple of radio spots. These account for several thousand more "visits" during the same five days.