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January 4, 2005 by Dan in Tech with 2 Comments

VisitorVille Intelligence has released information on how employees of several large companies use the web based on their monitoring of thousands of websites. Presumably using IP address blocks, they group company employees together to produce some interesting facts and figures: Microsoft employees use Google for their searches 66% of the time, but MSN Search only 20% of the time, and Firefox is their second most popular browser behind Internet Explorer 6′s whopping 98.76% share. Google employees use Google as their search engine 100% of the time and 21% use a Mozilla or Firefox browser. Apple employees like Google best and 68% use Safari.

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google is 1337!
http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2005/01/05/slashdot-steals-my-post/ » Hey, Slashdot, Where’s The Source? » InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel

[...] UNEASY Silence – the exact sentences posted at Slashdot, time stamped 5 minutes before Slashdot! – 2 hours 39 minutes ago So, what do I see? I see a post at Slashdot, 70% of which may have been plagiarized. Even if it wasn’t plagiarized, whoever posted it had to have read about VisitorVille Intelligence somewhere else, yet, once again, Slashdot fails to source. Why no link to any one of those sites, one of which most likely inspired the Slashdot poster? Are we to believe that poster discovered the site all by himself, and does not read any blogs other than Slashdot? Shouldn’t Slashdot insist on crediting? I’m not saying I deserved any credit, especially since UNEASY Silence may very well deserve all the credit. What bothers me is that if I deserved credit, I wouldn’t have gotten it, and credit on Slashdot is very important. [...]

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