Total Number of Internet Users in India: 30.32 million
Blogging is less popular. While 27 per cent of all online Indians read or check blogs, 15 per cent of them comment on blogs and only 7 per cent of them have a blog of their own.
Some 77 per cent home users and 74 per cent of office users use broadband, but downloading of Websites is a major object of complaint. Connecting to the Net is also a frequent problem.
Social networking is catching on fast. About 56 per cent users do both social and professional networking on the Web, while 29 per cent do only social networking.
Yahoo, with a 30 per cent share, tops brand recall among online sites, but in terms of actual usage, Google tops at 29 per cent. Orkut tops networking at 64 per cent and Yahoo leads instant messaging at 63 per cent. [HT]
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