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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."
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.
What, exactly, are people *doing* at Microsoft's website that would take 204 Billion minutes?
Filling Bug Reports
Hotmail still has a massive userbase.
Why is there a Facebook logo next to a Google story?
Probably logged into XBox Live and fragging each other in Halo.
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.
That's pretty sad to use XBox connections as "visits" to webpages if true.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
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...
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Indeed. I myself use Google a lot. I can understand people spending too much time on facebook. But MS ? I'd be curious to know where on MS's Web people go to. Last time I spent any amount of time there was tryng to make sense of 7's tiers and prices. Unless the backgroung page I keep open to my junkmail account on hotmail counts ....
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MSDN developer documentation and admin reference. People do write Windows software and administer all those systems, you know.
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.
Waiting for help.
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.
windowsupdate.microsoft.com ?
gotta wonder if that's counted.......(Can't speak for later windows versions, but at least in XP that page was still hit when you ran an update)
I am there just about everyday on Technet, reading through knowledge base articles, or downloading software / patches. It is almost always a Google search that has gotten me to that particular Microsoft page ;)
Of course one is forced to use Google because the search function on Microsoft's site is pretty worthless.
204 billion minutes = 388,000 years
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.
Very much this. I recently started a C# project and if you're new to .NET MSDN is essential.
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.
People don't spend massive amounts of time just google searching ... or bing searching ... the do however spend lots of time reading their email on the sites both of those providers provide.
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
If you're smart, you'll install the localized help and turn on integrated help in visual studio, its far easier to access the help locally with hotkeys than using msdn for most things.
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
See the following process comparable to a maddening wikipedia link chain with no surprises:
(1) click on semi-relevant article with a title that seems like it may help to resolve said issue.
(2) find that this article has to be written for the likes of your grandmother (completely retarded user) or some weird error code (that uses like 8 digits these days) and is completely irrelevant.
(3) Look to the bottom and see See Also:
(4) Go to Step (1)
True story. In fact I bet this is really easy for content service providers because they only need to cache perhaps around 100 different help articles that can co-link and co-create a tangled mess from hell.
(You could say I am a Microsoft fan.)
We should start a new Slashdot and return control to the geeks. It actually wouldn't be that hard to get some users to
Google searching for porn
Facebook hoping to make contact with porn star
Microsoft for fixing windows when they click on free porn ads
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?
Ah yes, and because you don't visit Microsoft's web site(s), obviously no one else does either.
In much the same way, I have never bought an Apple product, therefore their sales figures must be entirely bogus.
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Ok, that estimate is two years old, but still, huge ... no?
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