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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."
Do they mean MSN?
I agree, I would like to see this list
According to: http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500
1) Yahoo
2) Microsoft
3) Google
according to the article
1) MSN
2) Google
3) Yahoo
so the lists are ugh, exactly reversed?
I'd love to know what methodology they used.
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You need multiple accounts. Slashdot doesn't require an actively-posting account to receive mod points. I have two silent logins that regularly get them.
...correct me if I'm wrong, but that behaviour makes no sense at all.
Max.
I wonder if Micro$loth is also including hits to windowsupdate.microsoft.com? Certainly, with all the windows PCs constantly hitting that server looking for updates, many of them automatically and without the user's active knowledge, it would rank quite highly.
What took them so long? Well lets see. Until a few years ago Google search sucked from a great height, returning vast abouts of garbage mainly consisting of outdated and broken links. Then they appear to have copped on to the 'lets make our money off advertising' concept (borrowed, not innovated) and there was a notable upturn in quality to the point where there were head and shoulders above everyone else.
Then on to other services. Now for example I have had a gmail account for years, however many of my friends (non technical, and particularly the legally minded) rejected invites after reading the privacy conditions. I though that was fair enough but then the Google Web Accelerator came out with the 'we might stick stuff you did not request in your cache clause' so I can sympathise with a large amount of people now view Google as a marketing driven engine with some gray boundaries.
Now I wont claim to pay attention to everything Google does (I think some is good, some sucks) but apart from the Slashdot fawning I do know there are quite a few people who question Googles approach to delivering their requirements. Fortunate for us, Googles quality over recent times has forced MS and Yahoo to improve, particularly in the search arena so I guess the user wins.
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So, when an IE user who has not modified their default home page wants to do a search on Google, it's first a hit against Microsoft (which they had no intention of using) when they start up IE, then a hit against Google (which they did intend to use).
I wonder what the stats would be if they pulled out the "initial default page" hits.
Cheers.
Mark
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The only thing I'm wondering is what the hell took them so long.
Keep in mind this is comparing domain traffic. Yahoo is much broader than Google in terms of services.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Make their website the default one of Internet Explorer and have IE always send the first few packets of a session there?
Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?
Well, I don't deny that yahoo has some good services, but I just got this logging out from yahoo mail with Firefox 2:p p9.jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/3834/stupidyahoo
Just because IE is the default doesn't make MS its default: Google has been making deals with many OEM's (e.g. Dell, the #1) to have its toolbar preinstalled and default to its homepage (no doubt you've seen http://www.google.com/ig/dell). I'd be curious just how many people that is, but throw in the 10-15% from Firefox and I'd bet it's over 50%.
1) I've always used Firefox, since before Safari appeared.
2) I've tried safari. Not that much different, but I don't like some aspects of it. I forget all the reasons, but one of them is that the tabs each have 'x's on them, instead of one on the right, which doesn't fit into the way I view web pages (open many, reading one at a time, closing them as I go). Safari is usable, but I don't see any reason to change.
3) I use Linux and MS Windows as well (at work), so Firefox provides some cross platform uniformity - though not a lot, I think, since the menus are all different/etc/etc.
4) It's free(er?).
5) I like Linky and a few other configurable options, which I don't know how to do in Safari, and since I do know in Firefox, I see no reason to find out - even if it's possible.
The argument that it integrates better doesn't work with me, since I don't much like OS X's interface.
Max.
Well, I had to use it for a few years to give it a chance, didn't I?
I still don't like it, so, on my powerbook at least, I've switched to ubuntu. That has it's problems too, but at least the UI is flexible enough for me to get it working that way I want. You see, I'm used to using SGI IRIX 4Dwm, with many years of using it. I've given Apple's UI a chance, and I still find it doesn't work very well, so I've switched to Ubuntu for most work. I'm told that even MS Windows allows you to change it's behaviour to work the way you want (I've not tried it though); it's only Apple that thinks they know better.
I still have some Mac apps that are good enough for me to want to keep OS X on my Mini - iMovie, iDVD, FCP, DSP, Airfoil, Addressbook (for typing SMS messages from my Bluetooth connected phone), among others.
Also, Apple Macs are damn good machines (IMO) - pretty reliable (though my Powerbook is getting somewhat flaky these days), good looking and all the connectors I want - they're also one of the few laptops that ship with full size firewire ports (for which I have some drives/etc). It's the GUI I don't care for - I wish we didn't have to pay the Apple tax for their OS when I'm just going to over write it with Ubuntu anyway; else I'd be all over a new Intel powerbook (or whatever they're called now).
Max.