global internet usage
Google Chrome overtakes Internet Explorer worldwide
Posted By Sam,
May 21st, 2012
It looks like it’s the end of Microsoft’s domination in worldwide web browser usage with Google Chrome usurping IE. According to StatCounter the most used web browser in the world is now Google Chrome overtaking Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and accruing 31.88% of the share of users compared to IE’s 31.47%.
Google Chrome’s recent rise has been verging on the rampant, gaining major ground on IE over the last 12 months. Google’s advance and IE’s decline has been extremely rapid within this area with Microsoft losing 25% of ground on Google in less than a year. This decline by Microsoft could in some way be linked to a similar decline in PC sales, the device to many that is synonymous with Windows and the IE family of web browsers.
Worldwide web browser share - Google overtakes IE
Google overtakes IE across the world according to StatCounter.
Global Internet Usage 2010 facts and stats
Posted By Sam,
May 12th, 2010
For almost ten years most people in business in the major cities in the UK, US, Japan and Western Europe have enjoyed speedy broadband connection with the capacity to share and view large amounts of data. Businesses have prospered, old industries have diversified and whole new sectors (like SEO) have appeared.
However that isn’t the case for the majority of the World’s population. Vast sections of the planet don’t have access to the internet.
But things are changing, and when the large populations of China, India, Russia and Brazil enjoy a higher penetration of internet usage a new world order could be upon us. (more…)