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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."
It's nice to see slashdot employees don't do anything on the internet :) Full company list is here by the way.
And IBM is using Windows exclusively?
I wonder why it doesn't show the top 5/10 visited sites.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
85% of Slashdot users use windows, and 60% still use internet explorer.
Well, only if myself, about half of my immediate colleagues, the Linux Technology Center people, all the people on the internal linux mailing lists and probably quite a few others don't count :-)
Given that one data point looks a bit borked, I'm wondering about the rest of the data...
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
Anything I post is strictly my own thoughts and doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the opinions of IBM.
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.
Either VisitorVille responds to slashdotting by saying it doesn't have data, or some companies were *really* fast with their privacy injunctions.
Kevin Fox
97% of NY Times employees use this to log into the NY Times website
...that 100% of Microsoft employees use sol.exe.
Electrons are free; it is moving them that becomes expensive.
I admitted just did a quick glance, but I didn't find their figures to be credible. I looked the company I work for, and it was listed as 100% Windows 2000 and 100% IE6.
However, we have a mix of Windows 2000, Sun Workstations, Linux machines, and more than a few Macintoshes. Our IT-supported browser is Netscape, not Internet Explorer. So I expected a little more diversity than what they're showing.
Also, their web site says they provide "company specific marketing information". Technically they are providing "market information" not "marketing information". There is a difference. "Market information" means just raw data (which is what they're providing). "Marketing information" means information that helps you make a decision: Should we avoid Flash because too few users at our site have it enabled? This is probably a nit-pick to many people, but for a company offering their research, the difference is nontrivial. The people whom they are targeting their information (besides people just curious for trivia) likely know the difference.
However, based on what I saw reported for my company, their data does not seem to accurately reflect what browsers/etc. people are actually using. Thus you could draw incorrect conclusions from their data.
Maybe that's why the information is free. You get what you pay for.
Insert simplistic political, ideological, or personal proselytization here.
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."
You'd think that slashdot users, being nerds, would use Firefox...
Dude, you're so last millenium...
Being a countercurrent techno freak implies using unfashionable tools. With all the positive press OSS gets, nerd-chic these days is to use IE.
abuse Slashdot so that our IP gets banned. When we track down the little bastard that did this...
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.
Please help metamoderate.
When is slashdot going to post their server stats??
Yes, It would be a national security threat if terrorists knew "The White House" had cookies enabled and used IE.
Either that or they didnt want Bill Gates to know they were using *nix of some kind...
Just love that all 50 links in the submission are to the same /.ed server.
"Well, that link didn't work. Maybe this one..."
Wake up.
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.
The coolest voice ever.
I am very doubtful that Microsoft gives its employees much freedom, if any, to install the software of their choice.
Actually, pretty much all MS employees are admins on their own machines, and aren't particularly heavily restricted on what they can install, as long as it's legal and licenced.
P2P apps and their ilk are restricted, as well as most other stuff at the dodgy end of the spectrum, but no-one's formally restricted on what browser they can install. Except of course for the fact that intranet sites use windows integrated auth, and will tend to break in non-IE
Screw you all! I'm off to the pub
I don't know how much this could account for, but at least a little.
Not too surprising, since our intranet apps often use tons IE only features. You can actually do some pretty nifty stuff in IE w/ XML/XSL, Javascript and DHTML. But I'll be damned if it doesn't break every standard in the book. :(
:}
Fascinating stats. Add me to the % that uses Mozilla.
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.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
well, kindof.. So they track every user who visits a site running their web bug and they *could* sell that information to anyone. :)
BTW I hope they're seeing lots of slashdot tornado's and riots at the moment...
09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.
Nah. Microsoft employees use MSN search 99% of the time and Google 1% of the time. It's just that MSN search almost never finds anything useful so they don't click on the web sites found, hence nothing shows up in RefererLog files.
And 78.35% of statistics are fabricated.....
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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mmm, because they cannot afford Sun's hardware for everyone? ;-)
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..."
Looks like their server is clobbered. MirrorDot has the mirrors.
~Jay
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The only search engine they're using these days is Dice...
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Alan Greenspan
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*
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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I recently hosted a mirror of an image in one of my posts that got around 800 hits. This was what my stats were for that.
Browser Version:
Firefox - 39.8%
MS IE - 19%
Curl - 14.1% (probably high because it was an image)
Unknown - 9.3%
Mozilla - 4.9%
Others - 4.4%
Opera - 3.1%
Safari - 2.8%
Konqueror - 1.9%
Netscape - 0.3%
OS Version:
Windows - 56.7%
Linux - 25%
Unknown - 13.9%
Macintosh - 3.6%
FreeBSD - 0.5%
Unknown Unix System - 0.1%
Why not code to standards so that all browsers get the same interface?
evil is as evil does