[LINK] Google now 70% of US search engine users

[Ivan Trundle]

On 14/08/2008, at 11:04 AM, Martin Barry wrote:

> Actually, what is probably more interesting is the default page the  
> browsers
> ship with and how many users stick with it.


It is pretty staggering when you try to look into this aspect of  
browser user behaviour. I'm constantly staggered that many internet  
users that I talk to are unaware that they can change the default  
starting location.

Taking this a step further, what impact does it have on browser user  
behaviours if a Google search box appears before anything else? Would  
be interesting to gauge how many people type URLs into the URL bar, or  
simply use Google to give them a two-step process to find and go to  
the URL.

It surprises me that outside of a corporate environment (where home  
pages are often set to the business portal or home page) that this is  
so commonplace.

Martin: if you do find any metrics, I'd be interested to peruse them  
myself...

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