WebSideStory, Inc. (www.websidestory.com),
the world's leading provider of outsourced e-business intelligence services,
today reported that Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 has shown a fast adoption rate
in the first week of its public launch. As of Sept. 3, 2001, Internet Explorer
6's global browser usage share had risen to 2.4 percent, according to
WebSideStory's StatMarket (www.statmarket.com),
a Web site design and software optimization service and a leading source for
data on global Internet user trends. StatMarket publishes information gathered
from more than 50 million Internet users a day to more than 150,000 sites
worldwide using WebSideStory's HitBox® Enterprise (www.hitboxenterprise.com)
and other HitBox e-business intelligence services. Internet Explorer 6, launched
on Aug. 27, has already surpassed AOL Time Warner's Netscape 6 in popularity,
StatMarket reported. Global browser usage share is the percentage of daily
Internet users worldwide that access the Internet through a particular browser.
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