As of Feb. 21, 2001, Yahoo! dominated as the top search referrer in every country, except a handful, according to StatMarket. Alta Vista was the top search referrer in the Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Estonia. Google was number one in Austria, Switzerland, Finland, and Ecuador. MSN was tops in Barbados.

As of Feb. 21, 2001, Yahoo! generated 39.62 percent of all search engine referrals worldwide. Google was second with 12.08 percent, followed closely by MSN (10.92 percent), AOL NetFind (6.33 percent), and AltaVista (6.31 percent).

...I think I just might skip the USA as my next holiday destination and take in North Korea, its a more democratic country !

Monitor Resolution Statistics http://jimworld.com/go/to.cgi?l=g113count

So, what screen resolution do you design for? Hasn't everyone moved up to at least 800X600?

This month's analysis from thecounter.com shows the following answers from January, 2001.

640x480: 7%
800x600: 54%
1024x768 and above: 35%
Unknown: 1%
Error factor: 3%

Personally, I believe it's about time the US caught up to the rest of the world. Pretty much any other country has the right to question suspects without "reason" [there is always a reason that's why you're a suspect duh]. They just don't publicize it.

However, the US is the only western democracy that still supports capital punishment. ...that's a whole different story.

I would support capital punishment if it actually worked as a deterrent and wasn't racists (80% of capital cases involve white victims. However, 50% of murder victims are white. Also white defendant/black victim crimes result in 11 executions while black defendant/white victim cases result in 116 executions.) It's also a huge waste of tax payers money (11 appeals get pretty costly in our courts).

So we have allot more screwed up issues in our society than the one you brought up.

I would imagine that so long as people don't cross the line and break laws they have nothing to worry about. Liberties are great if moderated

That is what the USA has just introduced - and that is scary.

No one really knows. That's why every report is different.

The only people with the data are the Internet service providers (ISPs). And each ISP has access to a particular segment of the population, and their data will be skewed as such. Someone would need to pull all this data together from the different ISPs, and hope for a statistically accurate sample. That's probably what those lists are.

But to get around the ISPs, and get some sampled data of their own, many companies like HitBot and Alexa invent "tools" whose secondary purpose is to harvest this sort of data directly from users. This includes things like bookmark services, non-web-browser search tools, and those IE toolbar applications that every portal site tries to get you to install (I personally use the Yahoo toolbar). But these tools appeal to certain types of users (the minority of users who install funky tools instead of using their ISP-provided default start page).

So, I think that in order to know what should be focused on, just follow the massively popular ISPs, and million-dollar marketing campaigns. The exception to the rule is companies with such huge name recognition that they rise to the top of any popularity contest: Yahoo, Amazon, and eBay.

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What is really scary is people crashing huge airplanes full of people and explosive aviation fuel into civilian buildings in order to kill as many people as possible. That is scary. Sometimes you need to give up rights for national security.

....kill you.

How do you like it so far ?

Sounds like the land of the free just turned into the "don't piss with the customs officer otherwise you will disapear and never be heard from again" - yeup, thats the democracy we have come to love.

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but won't let you have a lawyer to represent you - and then....
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I don't see why you wouldn't have fair representation, especially since one of the main priorities of these tribunals is to give suspected terrorists a fair trial. How long do you think they would possibly last in a normal prison population? The legal process right now takes months. I'm guessing about 2 minutes before someone gruffly demands "You wanna be the husband? or the wife?".

Unless the law that was just enacted to allow these tribunals to take place changed the previous law they can't just kill people without reason. (I'm not sure exactly what the new stipulations are though). Actually, Bin Laden is still alive today because of this law. At the time Bill Clinton was restricted by US constitutional law and couldn't have him executed when the FBI tracked him down - even though he was already suspected of several US attacks.

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I don't see why you wouldn't have fair representation, especially since one of the main priorities of these tribunals is to give suspected terrorists a fair trial. How long do you think they would possibly last in a normal prison population?

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But that is the whole point about this lovely new legislation !

You dont get representation - at all. Neither are you in the "normal" prison population, but held in a military prison, away from everyone else. Also, you cannot appeal to anyone.

Basically, you disapear from view - no one is notified of your arrest - and do you honestly expect the get a fair trial under these conditions - I wouldn't ?

Oh, and it only applies to foreigners who enter USA airspace - so the American citizen can sleep comfortable in the knowledge that "their" rights have not been infringed - how cares about a few Germans, Japanese and Philippinos disapearing from view ?

--Benjamin Franklin, 1759