[JoJo Gunn]

So, since I'm not on my knees fellating Big Brother Gates, I'm trailer trash? Again I say you have all the debating skills of a hippie.

When did traffic from a home page become "dishonest" numbers?

Seeing as how I'm not in your league, must I spell out everything to you?

They're fudged, rigged, whatever words you wanna use. The fact remains that a lot of those hits aren't from conscious decisions to make MSN a home page. Some people are just too lazy to change the setting, or don't know how, or don't care, whatever. There's no way you can logically compare MSN to Google's hits, since Google doesn't have the home field advantage of OS's and/or browsers shipping with them as a default.

[KwasiOwusu]

"The fact remains that a lot of those hits aren't from conscious decisions to make MSN a home page"

Takes exactly 5 seconds to change a home page.
Plus every other browser out there comes with its own agenda and home page.
Plus its perfectly LEGAL and perfectly within the terms of the antitrust settlement with the US government.