Once more, Microsoft loss is Google's gain

[anandk]

Google has overtaken Microsoft for the second time in a week, this time claiming the bragging rights as the world's most visited website.

According to US-based internet traffic monitor comScore Network, Google's combined network of sites - which includes the video-sharing site YouTube.com - had 528 million unique visitors in March, a rise of 5 per cent over the previous month.

Microsoft stable of sites collectively attracted 527 million visitors during the same month, up 3.7 per cent.

This marks the first time since comScore began tracking the rankings 16 months ago that Google has taken the top spot.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/biztec...459851016.html

so ... what will hapn if google becomes another microsoft ? public sympathy usually veers towards the underdog; and once google was an upstart ! but now things r difrnt ! so, will it to be "hated" too ?

[aryayush]

Actually, it is shocking that Google is only slightly ahead of Microsoft even after you combine Blogger, GMail, Google, orkut and YouTube. I doubt the authenticity of this article. Google's websites are the ones I visit the most and most other people do too. Compare this:
Google > Live Search
GMail > Hotmail
Blogger > Spaces
orkut > ???
YouTube and Google Video > Soapbox.

How come they are only slightly ahead then? Isn't Google's search results page the most freqently visited page on the Internet?

[sakumar79]

MS Websites are also visited by people for downloading MS apps such as latest versions of DirectX, IE, WMP, etc. and for support articles on STOP errors, etc... Also for downloading patches and for details on .NET languages...

Arun

[Pathik]

Originally Posted by aryayush

Actually, it is shocking that Google is only slightly ahead of Microsoft even after you combine Blogger, GMail, Google, orkut and YouTube. I doubt the authenticity of this article. Google's websites are the ones I visit the most and most other people do too. Compare this:
Google > Live Search
GMail > Hotmail
Blogger > Spaces
orkut > ???
YouTube and Google Video > Soapbox.

How come they are only slightly ahead then? Isn't Google's search results page the most freqently visited page on the Internet?

well the default home page on IE is of MS..
the default error reporting in windows takes u to MS
to search for codecs on WMP u goto MS...
still even i m amazed... Google shd be >>>>> MS in terms of page visits..

[aryayush]

Not everybody who connects to the Internet uses Windows, but Google is used by practically everyone.

And for all the things that you guys pointed, one person would need to visit Microsoft's website roughly twice every month on an average, wouldn't he? But people visit Google's websites more than ten times every time they use the Internet.

[freebird]

never to M$ site even accidentially I use Linux,not everyone use windows

[Pathik]

yup.. There is surely some jhol.. Even ff and opera hav a google search box by default..

[rajasekharan]

hey, that article must be faulty, google should be way way ahead of MS.

[casanova]

And u forgot, it is unique vistors each month. So if I visit microsoft once every month and google once every hour, it is still 1 hit for the month.

[aryayush]

Oh, that explains a lot of stuff.

[Quiz_Master]

Maybe Microsoft bribed them

Seriously I think Google should be way ahead of M$.
I open google advance search page almost 60-70 times a day.
And I open M$ just 2-3 times a day.
HowZ That????

[cynosure]

^^ Thats the way a normal computer user behaves. Microsoft site is visited maybe once a day whn the windows want to update the softwares or maybe twice when user also visit it. But Google is visited zillions of times a day and that too without even knowing. Google has been well integrated in our lives.

Cheers to Google.

[rakeshishere]

Slightly ahead or way ahead ....I want Google to be fwd as always!