Chrome Browser Usage Artificially Boosted, Says Microsoft 272
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from the depends-who's-counting dept.
from the depends-who's-counting dept.
bonch writes "Chrome was recently called the world's no.1 browser, but Microsoft is accusing the source, StatCounter, of using flawed methodology. When a user enters a search in Chrome, the browser preloads an invisible tab not shown to the user, and these were being counted by StatCounter. Net Applications, another usage tracking group, ignores these invisible tabs and reports IE at 54%, Firefox at 20.20%, and Chrome at 18.85%." Whereas the saturation of MSIE is totally organic, right?
It really does not matter... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I thought this was already refuted? (Score:5, Funny)
"bonch wites"
Theres our problem.
Re:Google has this habit (Score:5, Funny)
That's nothing, Facebook has this habit of paying people to troll Google on Slashdot!
Re:but coming pre-loaded... (Score:4, Funny)
>> I'm on a poor connection and doing stuff like that slows down the whole internet.
Yes... I noticed the entire internet slow down when you searched earlier. Please stop.
>> It's also dubious that Google boasts their market share with these inflated numbers...
So you think it's doubtful or questionable that Google does this? So do I.
>> And what if one of the search results contain ...
OMG THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!
At least you earned your shill paycheck today.