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Website Information

Many businesses look up information about their prospective employees and business partners on the Internet trying to discover as many information as possible about the person or business. Journalists need to find those information for their research as well. There are additional parties and reasons for looking up website information.
One great service that is displayed lots of information is Quarkbase (via Feed My App) which uses the tagline “Everything about a website”. It’s definitely not everything but it is more than you might expect. The service is free and the user can enter an url in the search form or a name that can be associated with the website. The system accepts google.com, Google or Google inc for example.
Information are divided into a quick excerpt at the top with the most important information like their company name, founder, number of employees, some traffic ranks and blog url. A custom introduction follows suit that contains a description, contact information and similar & related sites.

The rest of the detailed information are divided into the categories Popular, Traffic, People, Spotlight, Company and Technical each containing a wealth of information about the website and company.
Popular refers to social popularity, bookmarks at Delicious, pages posted on Digg and Reddit, blog reactions from Technorati,references in Yahoo Answers, inbound links from Wikipedia, Digg frontpage occurrences and comments on Stumbleupon.
That’s not all. You get popular pages of the week, all time popular pages and feed urls in the same category. That alone is an amazing amount of information. But that was only the Popular category.
Traffic seems to utilize information from Alexa which is not that reliable but a good indicator nevertheless in most cases.
People lists people that are associated with the domain name or company. If available their title is listed as well.
Spotlights pulls the latest references from Twitter, Techcrunch, Google News, Get Satisfaction and from Technorati if those references are available.
Technical is the last category which lists information about the web server, location, nameservers and the like.
The tool is rather extensive and well done. It could improve the traffic section by using other sources which would be nice. Other than that it gives a great overview over a domain name. Popular websites are already in the index. If you request information about a website for the first time (I entered rarst.net to test it out) it is showing a progress bar and it usually takes a bit longer before the information are provided.