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Google Hits One Billion Unique Visits In a Month
BogenDorpher writes "According to statistics from ComScore, for the first time ever, a website drew one billion visitors worldwide in just one month. Guess what website came out on top? Google of course. Microsoft and Facebook rounded out the top three. From the article: 'Though Google captured the most visitors last month, users collectively spent the most time at Facebook--250 billion minutes in May, compared with 200 billion minutes at Google and 204 billion at Microsoft."
The Daily Kos makeover of You Lie! was just classic.
What would occupy your time on the Microsoft webpage nearly as much as Facebook? I'm genuinely curious because I can't think of anything there that's not a quick in and out unless they count time to download updates as part of the metric.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
To me the most interesting item is Microsoft. Why are they on the list with 200 bil minutes? Bing still has 20% market share. When I saw the headline the first thing I thought of is millions of Windows developers tearing their hair out on MSDN. My second thought is doesn't Windows Update uses MS' http server to update itself?
What, exactly, are people *doing* at Microsoft's website that would take 204 Billion minutes?
He only got 800,000,000+ last month. I suspect his site has the highest hit/employee ratio, though.
Why is there a Facebook logo next to a Google story?
You want the truth! You can't handle the truth!.
users collectively spent the most time at Facebook--250 billion minutes in May,
A huge waste of time and bandwidth.
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
I never go to Microsoft's web site. That's not to say I am not interested in Microsoft products or what they do, but as a general rule I don't have a need to visit Microsoft's top web site. I would visit it as much as I would visit Intel, AMD or Nvidia. Once in a blue moon, but hardly as much as Google or Facebook (or Slashdot!).
I wonder if they are including patch updates?
Are the Microsoft apps phoning home so long they reach 204 billion minutes a month?!?
Including, astonishingly enough, more than a few businesses. Am I alone in immediately assuming that a Hotmail address implies a fly-by-night kind of outfit?
Although, strangely, I don't assume the same thing when I see a Gmail address...
Three Squirrels
Took me a second.
They don't mean a billion clicks.
They mean a billion different people. One seventh of the world's population followed any of Google's URI's at some point during the month.
Fuck.
Regular Gmail addresses are no different than Hotmail addresses. If someone is using Google to host mail for their business, they can get a free business account to host their domain. If they haven't done that, they are no different than the free Hotmail users.
I'd like to know how they count both visitors and time sent.
Do my multiple brother, on multiple PCs, each count as a unique visitor ?
Does my pretty much 24x6 background tab to gmail count as 24x6h/week of presence ?
For comparisons, this probably more or less averages out between sites (though usage patterns may vary ?), but as absolute numbers, of few buckets of salt are advisable, I think.
The Cloud - because you don't care if your apps and data are up in the air.
Moreover, you can host a custom domain on hotmail as well if you *really* want to.
From the WSJ article: "ComScore’s estimates are based on its “global measurement panel” of two million Internet users, similar to how Nielsen measures television ratings. ComScore refines the estimates with “page view” data that it receives from more than 90 of the 100 publishers of Web content, but not from Google." Without more details the numbers are, well, numbers.
Just made me curious: how many visitors/minutes on /.?
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
Google in the global search engine, it's the most wonderful development team is very good use of the network resources, let seekers get a satisfactory result.
204 billion minutes = 388,000 years
I read the best article on Google and their visits and it was very impressive. It is the "only" search engine I use at this point.
I'm responsible for all KINDS of different searches from over 20 IP's...
And that's in just one month.
Pretty truculent to assume they can tell 'unique' visitors.
250 billion minutes were wasted playing absurd games
200 billion minutes were used searching for information and pictures on Anthony Weiner
205 billion minutes were used downloading the latest version of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
I finally see why Microsoft's websites are so hard to use, they were shooting for that 4 billion seconds edge over Google. Finally they have found a game that they can win at.
... over 475,000 years. Can that be right? Did the human race really spend almost half a million man-years in May on Facebook?
To put it into another context:
40 hours a week * 50 weeks a year = 2000 hours/yr = over 2 million years at the number of hours a typical (North American) works in a year.
REALLY?!?!
Then again, YouTube has 35 HOURS of video uploaded every MINUTE. That's 2000 years uploaded every year. Christ.
Google searching for porn
Facebook hoping to make contact with porn star
Microsoft for fixing windows when they click on free porn ads
Based on these numbers, facebook kills 5 people every month, based on an average lifespan of 80 years. Won't someone think of the kids?!?
...stupidity is unversal, sheeps of the world follow any trend of the moment
Almost exactly a year ago, facebook reported they were at 16 billion minutes of use per day 250 billion minutes a month is just 8 billion minutes per day.
I'm guessing that the total time spent on facebook hasn't halved, which raises the question: how trustworthy are these figures?
I like this post http://tinyurl.com/4yn3fuq
Ok, that estimate is two years old, but still, huge ... no?
-- Prem
Aiming to tweet on a rice
250 billion minutes = 173,611,111 days = 475647 years/ 70 years = 6,795 lifetimes.
Last month almost 7000 lives were spent on facebook.
I wonder how that compares to lives lost in car accidents?
It should have been a lot more all those people trying to find fixes for the MS bugs that MS ships every minute they exist.