Hello gail-ga,
I located a fairly recent, and independant ranking from NetValue a
reputable source with unique visitor figures for April 2002
on Hong Kongs Netvalue site ( http://hk.netvalue.com )
Hong Kong's top 'search engine' is Yahoo! ( http://hk.yahoo.com )
which also happens to be Hong Kong's most popular site for all
categories, as the top ten list below is not restricted to search
engines.
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Source: NetValue
http://www.netvalue.com/corp/news/top018_hk.htm
"Properties are defined as a group of domains managed by one company.
i.e. : Yahoo comprises all Yahoo domains (yahoo.com, yahoo.co.uk,
yahoo.de...).
Domains are defined as a group of Web pages under the same name.
i.e. : yahoo.de comprises one domains.
The Reach Ranking is the percentage of Web users who visited a
particular site at least once in the month."
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PROPERTIES
1 Yahoo Unique visitors (000) 1147,83 > % of users (Reach) 82,6%
2 Microsoft Unique visitors (000) 990,46 > % of users (Reach) 71,3%
3 MSN Unique visitors (000) 913,12 > % of users (Reach) 65,7%
4 AOL Unique visitors (000) 802,62 > % of users (Reach) 57,8%
5 PCCW Unique visitors (000) 686,31 > % of users (Reach) 49,4%
6 Gov (.hk) Unique visitors (000) 648,15 > % of users (Reach) 46,7%
7 Lycos Unique visitors (000) 648,06 > % of users (Reach) 46,7%
8 ASK Limited Unique visitors (000) 603,82 > % of users (Reach) 43,5%
9 Fortunecity.com Inc Unique visitors (000) 565,37 > % of users
(Reach) 40,7%
10 Sina Unique visitors (000) 558,8 > % of users (Reach) 40,2%
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DOMAINS
1 yahoo.com.hk Unique visitors (000) 1013,7 > % of users (Reach) 73%
2 yahoo.com Unique visitors (000) 991,1 > % of users (Reach) 71,4%
3 microsoft.com Unique visitors (000) 771,2 > % of users (Reach) 55,5%
4 msn.com Unique visitors (000) 700,1 > % of users (Reach) 50,4%
5 icq.com Unique visitors (000) 657,4 > % of users (Reach) 47,3%
6 gov.hk Unique visitors (000) 648,2 > % of users (Reach) 46,7%
7 netvigator.com Unique visitors (000) 642 > % of users (Reach) 46,2%
8 passport.com Unique visitors (000) 607,2 > % of users (Reach) 43,7%
9 uhome.net Unique visitors (000) 603,8 > % of users (Reach) 43,5%
10 yahoo.com.tw Unique visitors (000) 587,7 > % of users (Reach) 42,3%
Figures NetValue copyright
I hope that is satisfactory,
regards
lot-ga |