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Google Reaches Second-Most Visited Site Status
Another anonymous reader has written to mention a story carried by Bloomberg, which has the news that Google is the second-most visited site on the internet. This puts it out in front of Yahoo!, which previously held the position. Google is now just behind Microsoft which, as the submitter pointed out, is the site that IE defaults to. From the article: "Visitors to Google's sites rose 9.1 percent to 475.7 million in November from a year earlier, while those to Yahoo sites rose 5.2 percent to 475.3 million, ComScore Networks Inc. said today. Both sites trail Microsoft, which had 501.7 million visitors, ComScore said. It is the first time that Mountain View, California-based Google attracted more visitors than Yahoo, reflecting Google's growing popularity outside the U.S."
"Also, they make sure to attract the zealots amongst us by being open-source friendly"
There, fixed that for ya.
In actuality, *real* tech savvy people are interested in only one thing - the best search engine. People with an agenda, on the other hand, add other considerations (open source friendliness, "don't be evil" motto, etc.) to their decision criteria. That said, there is no denying Google is the best search engine today by far, and whoever is in second place isn't even close.
The more you regulate a company, the worse its products become.