May 10, 2006
FIrefox vs. IE Popularity Contest, Brought to You By Google
The graph pretty much says it all:
(And yes, I checked, it's basically identical with "Internet Explorer" or IE)
Opera watchers might find this query somewhat interesting. Firefox takes the lead, even though Opera has an entire musical genre putting in its efforts for it as well.
Posted by zach at May 10, 2006 4:42 PMWhat are the peaks on the line graph? Memory leaks? :-)
Posted by: pd on May 11, 2006 2:47 AMWhat does this show though? Agents used in Googles weblogs or people searching for Firefox and Internet Explorer?
If it's people searching for those terms - what does this prove? Windows comes with IE so why would someone search for it?
Posted by: Garry on May 11, 2006 3:49 AMLol....cant say i see the point here either. Strange.....how does this really show that one browser is more populare than another? Or more used?
Posted by: peakshysteria on May 11, 2006 5:09 AMIf you squint, it kinda looks like IE is flatlining, whilst Firefox has a nice, steady heartbeat. ;)
Posted by: Daniel on May 11, 2006 6:18 AMKevin, that's ridicules. You can't eliminate the data where people searched for "opera" without meaning the browser.
peakshysteria, it shows what browser ist most popular as a search term. Nothing more, nothing less. Actually I don't see your point.
Posted by: Dao on May 11, 2006 6:22 AMKevin - Searching for "opera -music" here is only going to give you data about how many people searched for that exact query: not very many. It's fairly meaningless.
Yes everyone, I realize that this graph is not a measure of market share and that it doesn't prove a whole lot. It's still interesting.
Posted by: Zach Lipton on May 11, 2006 7:52 AMinternet explorer can also be searched by many other names, ie7, ie6.5 and many other but firefox is only firefox
Posted by: nivid on May 18, 2006 7:40 AMIt is not a popularity, it is just lookups for more information. Most of the people can find the information about their IE by just clicking Help in their browsers.
Posted by: Michael on June 10, 2006 8:48 AM