DSRGR@aol.com wrote:
> The PCMeter report, measuring usage for April 1997, found that AOL is the
> indisputable #1 presence in cyberspace using several different yardsticks:
> 1. More than 55% of all household time spent on either the World Wide Web or
> on the proprietary areas of online services is spent with AOL.
> * The other proprietary services - Prodigy, CompuServe and MSN - combined
> make up less than 6% of cyber-time.
> * All other ISPs and websites combined add up to less than 40%.
> 2. AOL accounts for 38% of all traffic from the home to the Web.
> 3. AOL's features and areas are top rated, measured by the percentage of
> people in cyberspace who use the feature or visit the area.
> * AOL email (rating: 39.8) and AOL.com (rating: 39.3) are the #1 and #2
> rated sites in cyberspace. The rating reflects the percentage of people from
> home who venture into cyberspace and visit the feature or site.
Don't forget that AOL is universally acknowledged as the host for
sources of at least 87% of all spam received over the net.
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