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Thursday,
November 9, 2000
Japan Has Major Impact On Media Metrix Global
Top 50
Media Metrix, the pioneer and leader in Internet and Digital Media
measurement worldwide, today announced the Top 50 multi-country Internet
audience measurement results for August 2000, revealing overall Internet
usage and top Web sites for Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan,
the U.K. and the U.S. combined at home.
While Media Metrix' multi-country top 50 digital
media and Web property rankings continue to be dominated
by large global brands such as Microsoft, AOL and
Yahoo!, the inclusion of Japan in the company's multi-country
report adds a significant number of Japanese name
brands to the rankings. Japan represents 12 percent
of the total online population among all countries
in Media Metrix' August 2000 at-home multi-country
report, the second largest Internet-using market
after the U.S.
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Microsoft claims the number-one
spot among at-home Internet users for the first
time since Media Metrix began reporting multi-country
measures in March 2000. Drawing 54.8 percent of
its total unique visitors from the U.S., Microsoft
taps a higher percentage of its traffic from online
audiences abroad relative to other leading brands.
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Of the six local country brands
within the August multi-country top 50, five are
from Japan, including Nifty Sites, Biglobe Sites,
DTI.ne.jp, So-net.ne.jp, Hi-Ho.ne.jp and MBN.or.jp,
which are all owned by major traditional companies;
and the sixth is Germany's T-Online Sites.
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At-home Internet users in Japan
went online an average of 13.9 days in the month
of August, the most of any country, and outpaced
the multi-country average of 12.1 days overall.
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Internet users in the United States
spent the most time online in August, with an average
of 15.0 hours, outpacing the multi-country average
of 12.2 hours per month at home.
Is it an Encyclopedia or a Website?
According to Business Week:
"When Eric Weisstein was a forgetful freshman at
Cornell University, he began jotting down useful
facts in an effort to better remember fine details.
These notes covered everything from music to math,
from the meaning of the bass clef to the number of
times physicist John Bardeen won the Nobel prize.
Weisstein scribbled through his master's and doctoral
studies in planetary astronomy. By 1995, his math
notes had become the basis of a popular Web site
dubbed Eric's Treasure Trove of Math.
Figuring he had plenty of solid material, Weisstein
asked a number of publishers if they might be interested
in publishing his math encyclopedia. Technical publisher
CRC Press took the bait and published the 1,969-page,
$99.95 Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics in 1998.
But the once-amicable relationship between CRC and
Weisstein has since disintegrated into a litigious
slugfest. After technical software company Wolfram
Research Inc. (WRI) began sponsoring Weisstein's
Treasure Trove site in June, 1999, CRC claimed that
Weisstein's continuing work on the Web infringed
on CRC's copyright..."
Click
here for the full story.
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