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Google Hits One Billion Unique Visits In a Month

Posted by samzenpus on from the they-grow-up-so-fast dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Microsoft? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Filling Bug Reports

  2. Re:Microsoft? by _merlin · · Score: 3, Informative

    MSDN developer documentation and admin reference. People do write Windows software and administer all those systems, you know.

  3. That's a billion people by blair1q · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:What are the numbers for /.? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Looks like about 600k visitors per day, or 416 visitors per minute: https://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site_profile?hl=en#siteDetails?identifier=slashdot.org&lp=true

  5. Re:Google The Facebook by suso · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because this is a story about the Internet, which runs on Facebook.

  6. The breakdown by damn_registrars · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  7. Re:Like they'd know... by grcumb · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm responsible for all KINDS of different searches from over 20 IP's...

    Oops, we stand corrected: Make that 999,999,981 unique visitors.

    Of course, we kind of fudged the underage we got from the countless Internet cafés worldwide, then jiggled things a bit to cope with laptops and tablets in Starbucks and airports... oh - we did catch that two month period when you were leeching off your neighbour's wifi. And we tried to tell the difference between the times when you accessed the web via your Kindle, your XBox and your Android phone, because you know, at this level of accuracy, mere statistical analysis isn't going to cut it....

    So... thanks a bunch for clearing that up. Our numbers just wouldn't be the same without the benefit of your little anecdote....

    Oh, wait - yes they would.

    sincerely,
    ComScore

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