{"id":502,"date":"2007-07-25T20:03:38","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T20:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/technology\/latin-americans-prefers-microsoft-to-google\/"},"modified":"2007-07-25T20:36:54","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T20:36:54","slug":"latin-americans-prefers-microsoft-to-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/technology\/latin-americans-prefers-microsoft-to-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin Americans prefers Microsoft to Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s magic may be working in US,Canada and Europe but doesn&#8217;t work quite well in Rest of the World. Earlier this month, internet research firm comScore released a new study that put Google a few steps behind the competition in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/technology\/google-step-behind-in-asia-pacific-region\/\">Asia-Pacific<\/a>, and now it says that Google are also trailing in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>Internet Research Firm comScore&nbsp;has today released the first report on Latin American Internet usage, based on data collected through the comScore World Metrix audience ratings service. Google tops Yahoo! but trails to Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>The study says, Microsoft sites received over 47 million unique visitors, while&nbsp;Google traffic&nbsp;was close to 46.5 million.&nbsp;Yahoo, who was leading in Asia Pacific region is well behind with just &nbsp;35 million unique visitors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"0\" >\n<tbody>\n<tr >\n<td colspan=\"5\"><b>Top 10 Latin American Online Properties <\/b> <b>Ranked by Latin American Unique Visitors (000)<\/b> <b>June 2007<\/b> <b>Total Latin America, Age 15+ <\/b>\u00e2\u20ac\u201c<b> Home and Work Locations*<\/b> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr >\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td> <b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/td>\n<td> <b>Total Unique Visitors (000)<\/b><\/td>\n<td> <b>% Reach<\/b><\/td>\n<td> <b>Average Visits per Visitor<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr >\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td><b><i>Total Latin American Audience, Age 15+<\/i><\/b><\/td>\n<td> 53,664<\/td>\n<td> 100<\/td>\n<td>54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr >\n<td> 1<\/td>\n<td> Microsoft Sites<\/td>\n<td> 47,342<\/td>\n<td> 88<\/td>\n<td>35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr >\n<td> 2<\/td>\n<td> Google Sites<\/td>\n<td> 46,496<\/td>\n<td> 87<\/td>\n<td>38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr >\n<td> 3<\/td>\n<td> Yahoo! Sites<\/td>\n<td> 35,075<\/td>\n<td> 65<\/td>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr >\n<td> 4<\/td>\n<td> Terra Networks<\/td>\n<td> 27,421<\/td>\n<td> 51<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr >\n<td> 5<\/td>\n<td> MercadoLibre<\/td>\n<td> 23,739<\/td>\n<td> 44<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr >\n<td> 6<\/td>\n<td> Wikipedia Sites<\/td>\n<td> 20,984<\/td>\n<td> 39<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr >\n<td> 7<\/td>\n<td> UOL Red<\/td>\n<td> 14,681<\/td>\n<td> 27<\/td>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr >\n<td> 8<\/td>\n<td> Ares Galaxy &#8211; P2P (App)<\/td>\n<td> 14,595<\/td>\n<td> 27<\/td>\n<td>N\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr >\n<td> 9<\/td>\n<td> Fox Interactive Media<\/td>\n<td> 14,078<\/td>\n<td> 26<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr >\n<td> 10<\/td>\n<td> France Telecom<\/td>\n<td> 13,759<\/td>\n<td> 26<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr >\n<td colspan=\"5\"><b>Source: comScore World Metrix<\/b> &nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s magic may be working in US,Canada and Europe but doesn&#8217;t work quite well in Rest of the World. Earlier this month, internet research firm comScore released a new study that put Google a few steps behind the competition in Asia-Pacific, and now it says that Google are also trailing in Latin America. 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