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Google has made some bad decisions in the past, and doesn't always handle its customers with white gloves. When the company launched Street Views maps without blurring out personally identifying information like faces and license plate numbers, I scratched my head. And when Google decided to get rid of its premium video services without letting its customers keep the videos they'd paid for, I felt the customers' pain.
So in another questionable move by Google, it's somewhat slighted its web publisher clientèle by getting rid of 'All Time" stats for FeedBurner data. That's not to say that there's no data left at all--daily, weekly and monthly numbers are still available for your use. But as Louis Gray noted, Google liberated FeedBurner's premium services by making them free, so is this a sad result of getting what you pay for?
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The effect that this change could have is rather far reaching. Several blogs and other web publications rely on FeedBurner stats to postion themselves in regards to other sites, and for comparison purposes of their own progress. For any publications out there that look to such data as a marker on their growth and current valuation, it looks like they'll need to begin compiling their own data. Perhaps they can start by using mashup tools like Strata, which are also free.
In regards to those services out there, like RatingBurner, that look to comprise FeedBurner's data in order to conclude some comprehensive data for more far-reaching purposes, the loss of such data from FeedBurner could essentially kill their business.
Knowing Google, it's rather unlikely that the "All Time" stats will be gone forever. Whether it returns as a premium service or is merely offered in a different capacity, I imagine there's a possibility that we'll be seeing the option return in one way or another, somewhere down the line.