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Guest posts on July 2nd, 2009 by Pingdom
Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 into the wild on June 30, prompting millions of downloads and a ton of mentions in tech press and blogs all over the world.
Considering all this attention, Firefox should have been a pretty hot search topic on Google that day. Right?
But no.
Looking at the top 100 trending topics on Google for June 30, there is no mention of Firefox to be seen anywhere. We looked at a couple of the following days as well, but with no luck there either.
We have no doubt that Firefox-related searches increased, but apparently not enough to make a dent as one of the top trending topics.
This says a lot about the average Web user: tech remains a niche topic. Even a major Web browser release didn’t make it into the top 100 trending searches on Google.
Like we’ve said before, “Tech just ain’t that hot on Google.”
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Main on February 8th, 2010 by Pingdom
Trailblazers, creatives and innovators have taken the Internet to where it is today and made it an essential part of our everyday lives. We have selected a number of interesting “firsts” from the history of the Internet (and the Web) for your reading pleasure.
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Main on February 5th, 2010 by Pingdom
Facebook has announced that it now has 400 million active users. Just one year ago Facebook had 150 million users, so 2009 was an incredible year for the social media giant.
There can be no doubt that Facebook is pretty much unstoppable at the moment, a real juggernaut. For some perspective on Facebook’s amazing growth, we have put together this infographic. We hope you’ll enjoy it!
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Pingdom on February 4th, 2010 by Pingdom
Sometimes you want an easy way to share your Pingdom monitoring data with others. So far we’ve had public report pages that you can use, but now we’ve added one more sharing method that is very flexible and easy to use.
Enter our new “report banners”.
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Main on February 1st, 2010 by Pingdom
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock lately, you’ll know that last week Apple announced the iPad, its new tablet device. Reactions have been a mixed bag, and a storm of discussion has swept through the blogosphere about various features the iPad should or shouldn’t have had.
One of the main complaints so far has been the iPad’s lack of multitasking. (To be precise, multitasking is a bit of a misnomer here; the iPhone OS has multitasking. What people really mean is only allowing one app at a time to run.)
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Main on January 29th, 2010 by Pingdom
The tech industry is littered with billionaires. We all enjoy a good income, but some clearly have earned more than others. Much, much more. The question is, how much money do the really big names in tech actually have?
To find out, we went through the Forbes 400, a list of the wealthiest Americans, and filtered out the people who work within the tech field, or more specifically: IT.
So here they are, the 20 richest Americans in tech today.
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Tully
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Why would the masses search for something like the firefox upgrade? Most likely got the update notification when they started the program, or knew it was out and just went direct. It’s not surprising at all that they weren’t part of the trending topics when you consider how more internet savvy FF users are than, well, any other browser (especially more savvy than those who use the pre-loaded garbage that comes with their PC)..
ryan
July 30th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Also it was a point release, not a 2.0/3.0/4.0 etc one. Devs usually reserve big features for .0 releases and that’s responsible for some of the reduced buzz.
PYDOT
August 7th, 2009 at 5:10 am
What else do you expect? Firefox has some bugs in it since 1 year, some critical never fixed. 3.5 was released and they discovered in hours a serious security flaw. The last 3 updates from Firefox where buggy. We should call it Firebug.
Stay with Opera or Chrome. This are solid browsers with a 100% patch history. Firefox is all funcy but if you want to be hacked, go Firefox…
Its also very slow know comparing to Safari, Chrome and Opera.
I used to love Firefox but lately they cannot keep up with it. It crashes allot and its slow, without addons at all.