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Googleholic for March 4, 2008

Googleholic for March 4, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!

This edition covers:
  • Find parking spaces with Google Maps
  • Google's attempt to improve Ads and how it's not working
  • Google backs human genome project

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Filed under: Internet, News

Study: you probably have 880 MP3s and 100 PDF files on your PC

comScore study
Internet research firm comScore says the average U.S. computer had an average of 3GB worth of MP3 files, and over 300MB worth of WMV (Windows Media Video) files. The study looked at computer hardware and software configurations in April. Here are a few other interesting findings:
  • Hard drive capacity is on the rise. Over the first four months of the year, the number of computers with hard drives under 30GB shrunk, while the percentage of computers with 100GB+ hard drives rose.
  • Users with the largest MP3 collections are more likely to spend time online gambling, gaming, shopping, chatting, and doing just about any other kind of online leisure activity that was tracked
  • Users with large collections of Microsoft Word Documents were more likely to spend time online in business related pursuits like travel, finance, and shipping.
So take a look at what's on your hard drive. If you've got too many Office documents and not enough MP3s, odds are you're spending too much time working. On the other hand, judging by the sheer number of MP3s taking up space on the average computer, it doesn't look like that's really much of a problem for most Americans.
[via Information Week]

Filed under: Web services, Social Software

MySpace getting old... literally

MySpaceAccording to comScore Media Metrix, MySpace users are starting to look a bit long in the tooth. Despite the common conception of MySpace as a teenybopper mecca, comScore says that half of all MySpace users are 35 or older, and the under-25 set makes up only 30 percent of its population. comScore has never been accused of incredible accuracy, but GigaOM's Liz Gannes called Fox Interactive whose spokesperson, Ann Burkart, confirmed the numbers' accuracy. According to Burkart, the 35+ demographic is growing fast on MySpace, having made up only 39.5 of MySpace's users a year ago.

Filed under: Internet, Video, Web services, Yahoo!

MySpace Videos surpasses YouTube

MySpace Videos vs. YouTubeSiliconBeat is reporting that, according to comScore Media Metrix, YouTube has been surpassed in traffic by MySpace Videos, whose traffic doubled in July. This seems to be in contradiction with Alexa, which has YouTube continuing to climb above MySpace. According to comScore, YouTube had 16 million visitors in July--a 20% increase over July--compared to MySpace Videos' 20 million. Required reading to understand these conflicting numbers is SiliconBeat's Web Stats Are Broken. comScore puts MySpace second only to Yahoo! Video, which it says had 21.1 million visitors in July, exceeding YouTube's growth with a 28% increase over June.

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