CReATION: Yahoo top with HK users

<p>Yahoo.com was determined to be the most popular website by far </p><p>among Hong Kong home Internet users last month, according to a survey by </p><p>Iamasia. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>The number of yahoo.com users totalled 884,000, while netvigator.com and </p><p>hongkong.com had 672,000 and 627,000 users respectively. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>The Hong Kong government's website, info.gov.hk, ranked 13th. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>Local media companies which made it into the top 20 were Apple Daily's </p><p>appledaily.com.hk and TVB's tvb.com. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>The survey result is based on data collected from Iamasia's </p><p>representative panel of home Internet users in Hong Kong. The data is </p><p>weighted and then projected to the entire home Internet-user population </p><p>in the SAR. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>Meanwhile, results of a Nielsen//NetRatings study found that Yahoo! was </p><p>the world's most popular website. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>Within the top 10 websites for home internet users in July, six were </p><p>foreign websites, while four of them were local websites, proving that </p><p>local websites do have a certain degree of attraction to the home </p><p>Internet users. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>The aim of the survey was to find out which were the top 20 websites for </p><p>Hong Kong home Internet users in July. </p><p><BR><BR> </p>

by | 09/01/2000