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How Company Employees Use The Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-keeping-track-of-the-competition-sir dept.

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. best results... by spac3manspiff · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:best results... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Although it's best to also use the competitions' products regularly, to find out where their strengths, and your weaknesses, are...

  2. how come by geekoid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    when people see that IE is used 98% of the time by MS, it's becasue MS doesn't give them enough freedom, but when google employees use google 100% of the time it's becasue it is a better product?

    Personal, I have started find google to be less and less useful. I actualy used HOTBOT last week to get result Google wasn't returning.
    And yes, I was as surprised as you are the hotbot is still around.

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  3. Re:In other news... by killjoe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "You're not supposed to be able to. Thats the point."

    No that's not the point. I can install software both on my linux system an on my mac without being root. I just install it into my home directory.

    On the mac if I want to install it for everybody I drag the icon to the applications folder. The Mac then asks me for the username and the password of an admin user and it's done.

    run as does not even compare. Sorry.

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  4. The obvious question. by killjoe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why not code to standards so that all browsers get the same interface?

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