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Mozilla Firefox benefit from Microsoft Internet Explorer Problems
December 23, 2008
Due to security concerns last week users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer were advised to switch internet browsers. Hitwise can reveal it was rival browser Mozilla Firefox that benefited from Microsoft’s problems. Within the top ten fast moving search terms last week ‘mozilla firefox’ was the fourth fastest, searches for ‘internet explorer’ were the fifth and ‘firefox download’ was the seventh. UK visits to the official Mozilla website shot up massively last week increasing by 215%. From searches for ‘internet explorer’ 4 of the top 10 websites receiving traffic were news sites, Google News (4th), Telegraph (6th), The Guardian Technology (7th) and BBC News (8th).
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