A good part of that 300 million hits per day could be generated by the clueless users who have Yahoo installed as their homepage.
I used to work for a division of Hewlett-Packard that has a counter on their Intranet web startup page. The standard, IT-installed browser (IE) would be configured to start up on that page. That gives IT some impressive bragging rights to page usage, value of their content, LAN traffic, etc. as one office worker after another started IE each morning and went somewhere else. Every "Open a New Browser Window" command would prop up IT's position. Heck, every one of the many system-wide failures would be good for more "hits".
What's that old saw about "statistics don't lie, but..."?
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A good part of that 300 million hits per day could be generated by the clueless users who have Yahoo installed as their homepage.
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I used to work for a division of Hewlett-Packard that has a counter on their Intranet web startup page. The standard, IT-installed browser (IE) would be configured to start up on that page. That gives IT some impressive bragging rights to page usage, value of their content, LAN traffic, etc. as one office worker after another started IE each morning and went somewhere else. Every "Open a New Browser Window" command would prop up IT's position. Heck, every one of the many system-wide failures would be good for more "hits".
What's that old saw about "statistics don't lie, but
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Joe