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Story: Net users bypass browser

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Posted by: John Walsh (Friday 9 January 2004, 11:26 AM)

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Bogus reporting - the Nielsen//NetRatings figures indicate that 75 per cent of web surfers ALSO use apps other than browsers (i.e. NOT that use of other Internet apps is ‘dwarfing’ the use of web browsers). The key to the Nielsen//NetRatings story (which, admittedly, is a little ambiguous) is the figure of 3 hours average usage per month for non-browser apps.

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