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How Company Employees Use The Web

An anonymous reader submits "VisitorVille Intelligence has released information on how employees of several large companies use the web based on their monitoring of thousands of websites. Presumably using IP address blocks, they group company employees together to produce some interesting facts and figures: Microsoft employees use Google for their searches 66% of the time, but MSN Search only 20% of the time, and Firefox is their second most popular browser behind Internet Explorer 6's whopping 98.76% share. Google employees use Google as their search engine 100% of the time and 21% use a Mozilla or Firefox browser. Apple employees like Google best and 68% use Safari. 91% of Internap employees use Mozilla or Firefox, Deutsche Telekom AG employees are the biggest users of Linux, and 39% of Sun Microsystems employees use SunOS. Other groups of interest to Slashdot readers include: The White House, the United Nations, The New York Times, Red Hat, and IBM."

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  1. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    85% of Slashdot users use windows, and 60% still use internet explorer.

    1. Re:In other news... by LPetrazickis · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd say that abstinence would be more like unplugging the network cable, mate.:)

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    2. Re:In other news... by iwrigley · · Score: 5, Funny

      The fact that you read Slashdot is probably more indicative of that than the fact that you only use WiFi...

  2. This just in... by bhadreshl · · Score: 5, Funny

    97% of NY Times employees use this to log into the NY Times website

  3. Stats show... by wcitechnologies · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that 100% of Microsoft employees use sol.exe.

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  4. More Stats by mg2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Regarding White House internet usage, the number one browser used from the Oval Office itself is that of Xbox Live.

    When approached for comment, President Bush stated that he likes to relieve his stress by, "blowing the shit out of my constituency on Halo 2."

    1. Re:More Stats by PortWineBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Honestly that would impress me, I woulda figured Dubya to be a WebTV man myself.

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  5. Re:best results... by Space+Coyote · · Score: 5, Funny
    Google employees use Google as their search engine 100% of the time That means when the employees actually use what they make... it must be good.

    But also imagine how fast it would be to have Google and its entire internet cache on your LAN?

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  6. My company's employees use the web to... by jeremythehunt · · Score: 5, Funny

    abuse Slashdot so that our IP gets banned. When we track down the little bastard that did this...

  7. In other news... by SuperBanana · · Score: 5, Funny

    95% of dynamic websites crumble within the first 15 comments. 50% after subscriber 'preview'. 5% when Cmdr Taco tries to click on the link before posting the story. 3% when Cmdr Taco tries to click on the link before posting the story. 2% when Cmdr Taco tries to click on the link before posting the story. 0% for Timothy; he's too busy ranting about the latest threat to "our rights online" to check the links.

  8. Look, I'm not anti-Firefox but... by Faust7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Firefox is their second most popular browser behind Internet Explorer 6's whopping 98.76% share.

    The second most popular behind 98.76%. Spin that any faster and you'd warp space-time. :)

    1. Re:Look, I'm not anti-Firefox but... by chromatic · · Score: 5, Funny
      ...as a company, it is in our best interest to make as many products work on a widely diverse set of platforms.

      Wow, Windows 2000 and Windows XP? Nifty.

  9. Re:best results... by drsmithy · · Score: 5, Funny
    That means when the employees actually use what they make... it must be good.

    You may wish to reconsider that statement in light of Microsoft's extensive and well-known policy of "eating their own dog food" :).

  10. You know its true by t_allardyce · · Score: 5, Funny

    That 20% MSN search at Microsoft accounts for all the times Bill Gates or some other senior hovers over someones shoulder...

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  11. Re:Sun employees hate their daddy? by BigGerman · · Score: 5, Funny

    mmm, because they cannot afford Sun's hardware for everyone? ;-)

  12. Re:Firefox by Transcendent · · Score: 5, Funny

    Being a countercurrent techno freak implies using unfashionable tools. With all the positive press OSS gets, nerd-chic these days is to use IE.

    Or, with regarding security, I just like to say, "I use IE because I like a challenge..."

  13. Re:best results... by Fishead · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you mean:

    Proverbs 26:11
    As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

  14. We got banned! by mikeb39 · · Score: 5, Funny

    While I was working with a network admin at a local highschool, the entire district got banned from Slashdot for "abuse" that appeared we were trying to dos them or somesuch. Of course we just assumed it was the district, but as it turned out, all the schools in the province are connected to a massive network that provides bandwidth for every school. So every school in the province got banned, that's thousands of IT workers and whoever the heck knows how many geeky kids who were suddenly greated with a big red screen. It took a few emails to slashdot to finally get them to unblock it, and the problem as it turned out was some kind of a router looping explosion thing. Sorry, boring story and I forgot the details. And the point. But I got this far, so *submit button*

  15. Re:White House stats by Poilobo · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's because even though they told the president he had a laptop, it was really an etch-a-sketch. It came with easier instructions:

    Mr. President, if your laptop gets mess-i-fied or subliminalated hold it upside down and shake to reboot.

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