I am so resentful of the pernicious promotional practices of Google that I now look on them as a legal virus. I detest that I have to opt OUT of their damn toolbar every time I download anything and last week, it tried to refuse to let me choose Wikipedia as my search default.
They have actually become more obnoxious than Microsoft as hard as that is to believe and I want no part of any product they make.
Speaking of REALITY
I manage several websites at a large University which gives me access to web statistics. In my experience, the fans of Firefox, Mac OS, Linux etc tend to greatly overestimate their numbers and influence on the web. Remember this is a large Medical University drawing in scientific exchange, patients, students, grad students, and the general public. It is a decent cross sample biased towards the computer literate and professional user. Here are the stats for last month representing over 419,000 unique visitors; a pretty damn statistically significant sample. You are going to be surprised, probably unpleasantly by the numbers. Just remember, don’t shoot the messenger. This is the world as it really is, not necessarily how I wish it was. And these numbers have not shown any signs of major changes in years. So though you may wish or think that Linux, Mac, Firefox etc are having a huge massive effect on the web and if you want to continue believing that, DO NOT READ THIS DATA
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