isitreal - 1:31 pm on Oct 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

Who uses Yahoo/MSN? People who don't change their default browser search settings, IE is set to MSN. Yahoo website users, that portal is pretty heavy traffic. People who know nothing about search engines, and don't care, and just use what they're used to. I think the stats are around 30%, that's what we get, seems to reflect roughly the statistical averages, our users are not tech savy.

<<<< A fine example is the firefox debate. Outside this forum I don't know anyone that has even heard of it!

Currently Firefox/Netscape use is rising, on one commercial, non-geek, reasonably well trafficked site we are getting between 5-8% mozilla/firefox/netscape users.

There's a lot of people out there who may not know much about computers, but do know that their systems have been taken over by malware, or who read the wall street journal, or USA today, or other major news sources, all of which have published articles, especially the CERT advisory against using IE.

A recent study showed that about 80% or more of all IE Windows running computers are filled with malware. People don't like this, and have taken notice. Sysadmins are taking notice, you can save yourself a lot of work on a big network by switching users to Firefox/Netscape. But I don't want to go off topic, just to point out the gecko numbers are real, and they're growing very fast, firefox just now released version 1.0.

I don't ignore yahoo/msn, and I don't ignore gecko browsers, they are projected to go up to 10% fairly soon, that's a number far too high to ignore.