This one comes from Slashdot - but I can't verify it at the moment since the VisitorVille website is down because the Slashdot link has crushed its bandwidth. There's something ironic in there, surely.
Anyway, if it's true it is quite a fun story, so here goes.
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.
Actually, I'm not sure how far off the mark these are compared to normal user figures - and they don't necessarily take into account any company-based restrictions on software choices. But still, a bit of egg on the face for Microsoft particularly.
