Google apologises to newspapers over 'nonsense' traffic stats in EU response
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#760A)
Search firm says 'sorry' to the Guardian and Bild after citing incorrect data in its blog response to European Commission's antitrust charges
Google has apologised to the Guardian and Bild, after citing "nonsense" figures for the two sites' traffic statistics in a response to the European Commission's antitrust charges against the company.
The figures, which claimed that the two papers get "up to 85% of their traffic directly" and "less than 10%" from Google, were later retracted.
Just to be absolutely clear... this is nonsense http://t.co/o283lh7q6k pic.twitter.com/tuV8LHw34u
A little Ophan powered fact re Google blog. Yesterday unknown traffic to Guardian fronts was broadly the same in PVs as Google referral
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