Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - Posts
Google the best also in Italy!
This is the result from the last research from Audiweb Nielsen//Netratings that says that Google is the most used search engine in Italy. The result is resumed as follow:
| Visitors (single IP) x000 |
Google (.it + .com) | 9,585 |
Virgilio.it | 8,024 |
Libero.it | 7,766 |
However, this is not the completely correct result... Accordingly to an accurate examination by I-Dome, if you consider the sum of the 2 domains .IT and .COM, the winner is MSN:
| Visitors (single IP) x000 |
Google (.it + .com) | 9,585 |
Virgilio.it | 8,024 |
Libero.it | 7,766 |
MSN (.it + .com) | 10,082 |
Now, these last results must be submited to an other consideration: MSN traffic comes a lot from the "autosearch" pages from Internet Explorer (when you type an incorrect URL for example, you're redirect to these pages).
If you take in consideration only the number of page view, Google is the absolute winner and the result are these:
| Page View x 000 |
| April | March | +/- % |
Virgilio.it | 512.922 | 631.287 | -18,75 |
Libero.it | 623.229 | 652.555 | -4,49 |
Google.it | 767.255 | 758.455 | 1,16 |
MSN (.it+.com) | 270.416 | 326.299 | -17,13 |
You can see that there are lots of point of view... ;)
One of the greatest feature on Longhorn is obviously WinFS... all the data (documents, images, video, music, contacts, email etc.) are grouped in a unique big catalogue and you can search this catalogue to find what you want.
The Find feature in Longhorn now appears like this:
Wonderful!! 
Now the way to search for a document is the same way to search for an email or for a telephone number but... what's the price of this power? This:
The WinFS.EXE process (alone) use 140Mb of your RAM and, if you consider what's the RAM usage of Longhorn without WinFS active (more than 500Mb, as you can see below)
you can see that the memory requirements are relevant (more than 700MB!!!!).
Longhorn eats a lot!! 
I hope that lots of memory usage improvements could be done from here to 2006 because meory usage must be well optimized.