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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. Did you know... by Hikaru79 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Did you know that 68.56% of people are easily impressed by statistics? :o

  2. Well...Microsoft let one slip by dantheman82 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    MSDN Student Flash, a student-focused blog that is part of the MSDN blogs, has come out with a blog entry about Firefox. Who in Microsoft let this one slip?

    It's an awesome post, though...

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  3. Re:Firefox takes a generation to start or get kill by _spider_ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Heh, I think you are alone (or in a very very small percentage) for Firefox to be slow.

    On all my machines in our offices, Firefox is pretty much the de'facto on speed. Mine is up nearly instantaneously, loads pages wickedly fast, and in general, runs fantastic in any of our Windows, Linux and Macintosh workstations.

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  4. When you thought you seen everything on ebay by sonicimpulse · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1 &item=5548444803&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

  5. slashdotted by gothzilla · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There are a few things that are beyond common knowledge.

    1. posting a link on slashdot will cause that link to see a massive surge in traffic

    2. posting multiple links to different pages in a website will multiply this already huge effect

    3. the slashdot effect will almost always take down a site and/or cost the site owner thousands of dollars in bandwidth

    Knowing these things couldn't one argue that posting a non-coralized or non-cached link on slashdot is the equivalent of a malicious DDOS attack which could cause legal repercussions? Would it really be that hard to take the tag and make it automatically coralized?