L'Internaute

Linternaute.com (webified name for L'Internaute or "the internet navigator") is a major French news site, launched in 2000.[2] As of November 2020, it was the 99th most visited website in France.[3]

L'Internaute
Type of site
News, lifestyle[1]
OwnersDassault Group, via its subsidiary Groupe Figaro.
URLwww.linternaute.com
Commercialyes

L'Internaute is published by Groupe Figaro, which is controversial because of the owning family being long-term politicians, military weapons industrialists, and billionaires.

Controversy

L'Internaute and its parent company were acquired by Groupe Figaro in 2015; with it Groupe Figaro became the largest native French online content provider,[4] thus increasing the concentration of French media under the thumb of Serge Dassault, long a source of controversy in terms of conflict-of-interest, as Dassault also owned a major military supplier, Dassault Aviation, and served in political positions from the Union for a Popular Movement party. His son Olivier Dassault has been a member of the French National Assembly for 18 years, while at the same time holding several positions at Dassault Group and its subsidiaries, including its media subsidiaries.[5][6][7][8] Serge Dassault remarked in an interview in 2004 on the public radio station France Inter that "newspapers must promulgate healthy ideas" and that "left-wing ideas are not healthy ideas."[9]

School rankings

L'Internaute creates its own rankings for school performance, by adjusting French government data with its own coefficients.[10]

Ownership

The site is owned by the Figaro Group / CCM Benchmark Group,[4] ranked fourth Internet group in France with 24 million VUs (Médiamétrie Netratings, January 2017) behind Google, Microsoft and Facebook.

Founded in 1996, Benchmark Group was bought in 2010 by the CCM group (Comment ça marche), resulting in the creation of CCM Benchmark Group, ranking the combined entity as the 5th most visited websites in France.[11] Groupe Figaro acquired CCM Benchmark Group in 2015, in what Le Monde described as "a great move," as Benchmark Group at the time had the 6th largest audience in France, through its properties Comment ca marche, Droit-finances.net, L’Internaute, the Journal des femmes,[12] Le Journal du Net and Copains.[13]

Audience

Per the survey institute Médiamétrie / NetRatings, in January 2017, Linternaute.com is the third news site in France with ten million unique visitors each month.[14] According to the book Search Engine Optimization All-in-One For Dummies, linternaute.com is one of "the most visited sites within France."[15]

In print media

In 2003, the French book Internet!: surfez, communiquez, trouvez, téléchargez... cited linternaute.com as a gateway site that could help novice internet users make progress in the online world.[16] And in 2007, the book Mieux utiliser internet pour être plus efficace listed first L'Internaute on its list of "best resources on the Internet."[17]

References
  1. "Qui sommes-nous ?". www.linternaute.com.
  2. "Qui sommes-nous ?". L'Internaute (in French). Groupe Figaro - CCM Benchmark. Retrieved 20 October 2020. Créé en 2000, le site Linternaute.com
  3. https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/linternaute.com
  4. Renault, Enguérand (October 1, 2015). "Le groupe Figaro, avec CCM Benchmark, devient le leader français des médias numériques". Le Figaro.fr.
  5. "Socpresse : Une restructuration en bonne voie". Stratégie. 24 May 2002..
  6. "Organigramme". Dassault.fr..
  7. Marie Bordet (23 December 2011). "Ça plane pour Olivier Dassault - Succession. Le fils aîné de Serge Dassault prend la tête du holding familial. Rencontre avec l'héritier". Le Point. Retrieved 26 October 2018..
  8. "Serge Dassault donne la préférence à son fils Olivier pour lui succéder l'heure venue". Les Échos. 23 November 2011..
  9. "M. Dassault veut une presse aux « idées saines »", Le Monde, 12 December 2004. Retrieved 27 January 2007.
  10. "French schools performance results revealed". The Connexion. 22 March 2017. Retrieved 1 October 2020. L’Internaute, which uses its own coefficients for the ministry’s factors such as ‘bac access rates’ (the chances of a pupil getting his bac no matter how many years it takes them). It also excluded schools with less than 100 pupils taking the bac. You can read L’Internaute’s top 50 lycées here.
  11. "Comment ça marche finalise son rachat de Benchmark Group". October 14, 2010 – via Le Monde.
  12. Joux Alexandre (2017). "Stratégies de marques et stratégies éditoriales du Groupe Figaro". Réseaux (in French). 2017/5 (n° 205): 117–143. doi:10.3917/res.205.0117. Retrieved 5 October 2020. CCM Benchmark. Ce dernier contrôle des sites de services positionnés sur le segment connaissance et tutoriels, ainsi de Comment ça marche ou Droit-finances.net, et des offres d’information en ligne comme l’Internaute ou le Journal des femmes.
  13. "Le Figaro frappe un grand coup dans le numérique". October 1, 2015 – via Le Monde.
  14. "Médiamétrie//Netratings". www.mediametrie-netratings.com.
  15. Bruce Clay; Susan Esparza (8 April 2009). Search Engine Optimization All-in-One For Dummies. Wiley. p. 626. ISBN 9780470495407. Retrieved 1 October 2020. Many of the most visited sites within France are French-specific Web sites such as Orange (www. orange.fr), Free (www.free.fr/), PagesJaune (www.pagesjaunes .fr/), and Copains d'Avant (http://copainsdavant.linternaute.com/).
  16. Gwenaëla Caprani (2003). Internet! surfez, communiquez, trouvez, téléchargez... Editions ENI. p. 100. ISBN 9782746021495. Retrieved 1 October 2020. Sur www.linternaute.com, par exemple, vous pouvez vous abonner à une lettre qui vous tient au constant de l'actualité de ce site aidant les internautes débutants a progresser
  17. Nathalie Quint (2007). Mieux utiliser internet pour être plus efficace. Editions Maxima. p. 23. ISBN 9782818800904. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
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