Flip over to http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/04/report-firefox-35-jumps-to-45-market-share-in-a-month-ie-hemorrhaging-slows/
While older versions of IE are thankfully dying, IE 7 is dying faster than IE 6. In fact, since June 2009, there’s more IE 6 users than IE 7 users. Man, what a bummer. It makes sense though, most of the people stuck with IE 6 can often just not upgrade at all or simply aren’t aware they can. Since you have to have Windows Vista, or an upgraded browser, to get IE 7, most of those users are upgrading to IE 8.
So yes, while it makes perfect sense, webmasters are still living in a sad Internet world where 8% of their users know what the difference is between a search engine and a browser…
Oh, and if you happen to read this and don’t know the difference, here it is:
A browser is: A piece of software designed to navigate Internet web sites. Incidentally, Internet Explorer (the blue E you click on) or Firefox (as well as many other) are web browsers.
A search engine is: Google Search. Your browser is not Google, and Google is not your browser. In fact, Google is a company, Google Search is a web site made to help you search for web sites, and Google Chrome is yet another browser. In the same way, more than one search engine exist, with recent development Bing is pretty much the only other (Yahoo is now using Bing’s services for search as part of an agreement with Microsoft, well, not yet but soon)
