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Quote:In late May, more than five million Web users vanished.

The disappearing act came when Nielsen/NetRatings, a leading company in measuring Internet traffic, sharply cut its previously reported statistics for the financial Web site Entrepreneur.com to 2 million unique visitors in April, from 7.6 million.

Why the change? For millions of Web surfers, Entrepreneur.com visited them — and not the other way around, the measurement company said.

As computer users visited other sites, new browser windows popped up containing articles from Entrepreneur.com...

full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/techno....html?_r=1&oref=slogin