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Google Reaches Second-Most Visited Site Status
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Zonk
on Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:26 PM
from the frequent-googing dept.
from the frequent-googing dept.
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."
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Microsoft? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Microsoft? (Score:4, Informative)
These statistics don't explain much, other than Google is rising in the ranks.
Re:Microsoft? (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://peter-hurley.com/)
What about Microsoft? (Score:2, Funny)
I will admit: There's not a single day I do not visit http://www.google.com/ [google.com] at least four times.
Re:What about Microsoft? (Score:4, Interesting)
Remove the false MS hits and see where it stands (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://www.overclockingwiki.org/)
Re:Remove the false MS hits and see where it stand (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Remove the false MS hits and see where it stand (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.moremayo.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday January 16 2007, @10:07PM)
I'd figure a good chunk of the people who run Firefox change their 'home' bookmark almost immediately. I did, but granted that was right back to Google's personalized homepage...
Re:Remove the false MS hits and see where it stand (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.websterscafe.com/)
Who did MSN pay to be the default search engine in IE7?
Hence the name: Monopoly.
Why so late? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.gadgetsieve.com/ | Last Journal: Sunday December 03 2006, @06:21PM)
Google is still (IMO) the best search engine out there.
Also, they make sure to attract the tech-savvy amongst us by being open-source friendly, adding lots of niche searches, their "Don't be evil"-motto, and being for so many of us the place we dream to work.
Sure, every now and then someone questions their "Don't be evil" policy, but compared to at least MS they win hands down. And Yahoo just isn't relevant, at least to me.
In short: Other search engines do marketing, Google goes viral in the very best way: By being the best, and giving us what we want.
Re:Why so late? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Sunday September 09, @10:43PM)
Re:Why so late? (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Thursday November 01, @12:01PM)
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.
Re:Why so late? (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.whyshouldihaveone.com/)
I was thinking big jump (Score:2)
Geeks rise from your graves! (Score:4, Funny)
Defaults indeed (Score:2)
Nobody can mistake Google's dominance over the Internet, its popularity is dictated (for right or wrong) by its rich source of search tools. They saw the importance of search over all the other providers.
The old saying "if you build it, they will come" rings true here, Google have not only done very well in search, but have captured a large chunk of web based email.
This is pretty cool (Score:1)
IE defaults (Score:3, Insightful)
None of these results are "correct" (Score:5, Insightful)
But Google is preset as the home page on Firefox.
When Apple was shipping Macs with Netscape Navigator preinstalled, they defaulted to an Apple-themed Netscape news page. People using AT&T DSL are getting routed to a Yahoo page quite often thanks to the SBC/Yahoo marketting partnership. Lots of people leave the homepage to whatever their ISP's software sets up. I've had people call me because they lost their homepage (it got hijacked, kids changed it, whatever) and they want assistance changing it back. When we gets to the point where it's time to type in the address, they ask me what they need to put in. I tell them whatever they want to come up and they don't have a clue, many think the homepage s part of their ISP settings so to have AOL coming up instead of ______ means they're now on AOL. Few of them seem to actually use their home page, it's just what comes up and then they go where they want to from there.
To really make these figures more accurate, we would need to sets everyone's homepage to (blank) and make them all reset it, but you would still have people setting it back to things they don't use because "that's how it was before".
Is Hotmail included in the MS count (Score:4, Insightful)
Maxwell Smart here (Score:2)
(http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3675.html)
Yahoo!'s redesign to blame? (Score:5, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Thursday September 30 2004, @01:33AM)
IMHO, Yahoo has made the fatal mistake of over-emphasizing form over function and is now suffering the result.
No need to visit Google webpage (Score:1)
way too low of numbers (Score:2)
Bad news for humanity (Score:2)
Funny (Score:1)
(http://www.osgeek.blogspot.com/)
Baised against gullible Windows users (Score:2)
(http://www.enyo.de/fw/)
The #1 website... (Score:1)
(http://12.183.160.165/~ccfreak2k/index.html | Last Journal: Tuesday October 03 2006, @12:11PM)
How do you go from % to flat #? (Score:2)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/)
Did this confuse anybody else?
Netcraft report (Score:4, Informative)
(Last Journal: Wednesday October 31, @08:33AM)
1 http://www.google.com/ [google.com] November 1998 Google Inc. Go US
2 http://www.yahoo.com/ [yahoo.com] August 1995 Inktomi Corporation Go US
3 http://www.google.de/ [google.de] April 1999 Google Inc. Go US
4 https://www.google.com/ [google.com] May 2002 Google Inc. Go US
5 http://www.google.co.uk/ [google.co.uk] April 1999 Google Inc. Go US
6 http://www.google.fr/ [google.fr] November 2001 Google Inc. Go US
7 http://www.microsoft.com/ [microsoft.com] August 1995 Microsoft Corp Go US
8 http://mail.google.com/ [google.com] June 2004 Google Inc. Go US
9 http://news.bbc.co.uk/ [bbc.co.uk] December 1997 BBC News Online Go UK
10 http://www.bbc.co.uk/ [bbc.co.uk] August 1995 BBC Internet Services, Docklands. Go UK
Slashdot is some 89 today.
Looks like the rank depends on who does the counting.
what is their magical counter? (Score:1)
(http://www.s5h.net/)
And that's not the BAD news... (Score:2)
Yahoo is getting worse, IMO. (Score:2)
I gave up yahoo search, in favor of google. I have left yahoo message boards after they screwed those up. Now their photos section is seeming just as badly borked. I don't like the way yahoo's mail editor works now either, especially when it comes to cut-and-paste.
Yahoo used to be all server based, and everything just worked. Now it's all javascript cr@p, that looks fancy, but sucks.
Google as No. 1 (Score:1)
Lies. (Score:2)
(http://www.thec.org/)
It could just be a matter of a broken metric (Score:2)
(http://www.livejournal.com/users/ru_linux_geek)
I started liking Yahoo Search .. (Score:1)
(http://www.mathpotd.org/)
Re:Yahoo? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Yahoo? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.beryllium.ca/)
YouTube.
Re:Yahoo? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:firefox (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Re:Yahoo? (Score:2)
I do. In a lot of cases, it's more Treo friendly than Google.
Re:firefox (Score:1)
(http://www.agentstepp.com/)
http://www.google.com/firefox/ [google.com]