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Most Search Engine Users Stop at Page 3 190

ambient12 writes "The BBC reports on a study saying that, despite the depth of content internet search providers offer, most people stop at page 3 or earlier." From the article: "It also found that a third of users linked companies in the first page of results with top brands. The study surveyed 2,369 people from a US online consumer panel. It also found 62% of those surveyed clicked on a result on the first page, up from 48% in 2002. Some 90% of consumers clicked on a link in these pages, up from 81% in 2002. "

Comment Re:I think they did too much work on localization. (Score 3, Informative) 14

Localizing Firefox is as simple as installing a xpi for that language and setting it as your default locale. The difficulty is in localizing the Windows and Unix installers, legacy applications. Each localized build not only has the separate locale xpi, it sets that locale to be that build's default, and configures the installer with a complete set of strings for that locale that are inserted at compile-time.

If you want to help update our installer software, contact me at cmp at m.o (I'm the tech lead for Mozilla releases). I can point you in the right direction to get started. Being proficient in C, Unix and Windows programming would make the task easier.

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