Googlified

After months of delay, Google finally released the beta of the 6th major version of Urchin - a web statistics analysis program that Google acquired in 2005 and currently serving as the back-end software for Google Analytics.

Unlike Google Analytics though, Urchin requires you to “install and manage the software on your own servers,” which is “useful for those who want to perform ad-hoc historical log processing, who want to store their web analytics on local servers, and those requiring third-party data audits.” Also, it’s not free, the final version will be a whooping $2995 (cheaper if you are upgrading from v5), but you can download a 90-day trial version here.

One of the new features is “improved user interface”. Yes, it’s improved comparing to Urchin 5, but the interface is also (pretty much) the old interface for Google Analytics.