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Google Hits Top Spot For First TimeGoogle has surpassed Yahoo to become the most popular website in the United States, according to comScores rankings by the number of unique monthly visitors. Google has long been the internets leader in search, but its audience has trailed Yahoos when counting other services such as email and photo sharing. Aprils numbers, which internet tracking firm comScore plans to formally release on Thursday, show Google on top for the first time. The lead is tiny - 466,000 visitors out of about 141 million apiece. And while such measures are good as a gauge, they arent known for precision. In fact, rival rankings from Nielsen Online already had Google as the top web brand. Still, comScores finding is one more hint of Googles dominance over internet pioneer Yahoo. Jack Flanagan, comScores executive vice president, said Googles dominance in search creates "a halo effect" that can boost its other services. Google now has the Picasa online photo-sharing service, competing with Flickr from Yahoo. Google also has launched a site on finance, while its Gmail email service keeps growing - and competing with Yahoo. Googles $US1.76 billion purchase of YouTube in November 2006 gave it the leading video-sharing website. According to comScore, Googles unique U.S. audience in April was 141.1 million, an 18 per cent increase from the same month in 2007. Yahoos audience grew 7 per cent, to 140.6 million. Microsoft was third at about 121 million. That said, Yahoo still leads in page views, meaning visitors spend more time there or return more often. Many Google users make a simple search request and quickly go elsewhere based on the results. Yahoo had 33.6 billion page views to Googles 28.7 billion. The comScore data come from its Media Metrix panel, recruited primarily using random phone-based techniques. ComScore recently took heat for its data on paid search clicks, which come from a larger panel that relies heavily on online recruitment techniques dismissed by many more traditional pollsters. In that case, however, Wall Street concerns that the faltering U.S. economy could bog down Google resulted largely from investors and analysts ignoring comScores advice on how to interpret the paid-click data. Google wound up surpassing the analysts predictions in producing a first-quarter profit of 30 per cent. AP Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationH.P. Chief Defends Timing of Stock Sale...Schoolboy to sell $59 iPhone hack... ABC jumps into digital hyper drive... Telstra sticks it to Apple... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - Google Hits Top Spot For First Time |
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