Google finally gets ahead of Yahoo in US
The bad news just doesn’t seem to end for Yahoo. As the Internet portal prepares to fend off a proxy fight by billionaire investor Carl Icahn, new research from comScore concludes that for the first time, Google has overtaken Yahoo as the most-visited Web site in the U.S. Google reached the pinnacle of the Top 50 U.S. Properties in April, with an audience of 141 million visitors, according to data from comScore’s monthly analysis. In April, more people used Google’s job search, career resources, and television sites, according to comScore.
Yahoo sites ranked second, with 140.6 million visitors, followed by Microsoft sites with 121.2 million visitors. Superpages.com Network, the online directory for local businesses, and jobs Web site CareerBuilder both jumped ahead eight spots to come in 18th and 30th, respectively, according to comScore. “April was a very active month. Google took the top property position, thanks to continued search growth and rapid growth at YouTube,” said Jack Flanagan, executive vice president of comScore Media Metrix, in a statement. “The return of the network television programs after the writers strike sent fans to a variety of sites to get information on their favorite shows, catch up on episodes they may have missed, get refreshed on plotlines, and to stream new episodes.”
Source: Infoworld
Comments(20)
Yess.Good news.
put some good movies not bull crap
you said “in US”
what about the world?
are you or what god
People actually still use these horrible search engines? Google is all I need…
That’s sad. I like Yahoo! and Google is starting to become the next evil empire.
Yahooooo! all the way
Bahaaa haa haaa haaa
google.com doesn’t have anything on the page except for the search engine.
yahoo.com has all that extra crap that people don’t want to look at.
Simple and efficient is the way to go when it comes to the internet
nuff said
-no more comments needed
@8
I think you being Martin-Slapped and banned would be funnier
Google has gone downhill for me.
I am on the lookout for something better.
Have they (Google) introduced a “smart” search or something?
Like if I search for a word for example “merge” it will show results for “merging” a word I didn’t search for!
Or say I want the exact spelling of ‘Colour’ it tries to be smart and show ‘Color’ too, just search for what I ask you!
I’ll have to test Yahoo, non-conformist! haha
why dont you just put the words in quotations so that it looks for the exact word??
Yeah go Google… Fock all you hippies
To Mr Ryan and everybody who still hasn’t learned to use basic features of Google (and most other search engines), please save yourselves hundreds of wasted hours and check these links:
http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=basics&hl=en
http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=advanced&hl=en
http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html
http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html
How hard can it be to google “google help” anyway?
Ya… who?
Bad pun, I know :p
Yahoo is so 1995…
google FTW !!!!
I wouldn’t put too much stake in these numbers, as they are really derived from rough estimates and shaky methodologies. Plus, what does a 400,000 hit difference mean out of 80+ million, statistically or in real terms? Then there’s the apples and oranges comparison problem; since google and Yahoo have different primary purposes, how can they be rightfully compared?
It’s kind of funny looking at the data. My take is that google is used by 60% US audience ( and 80% of world audience). I’m dead sure because we have sites that rank on the top 10 position on both search engines. Google gives 4 times more traffic than yahoo. I still have no idea how comscore gather their data… but our sites shows google has been ahead for the last 3 years. MSN is no show … #1 position on MSN would not get you the traffic a #20 on google would get you for the same keywords
danny: google have been an “evil empire” for a long time.
use http://www.scroogle.org/scraper.html if you want results from google but don’t want to have to look at their annoying ads and sponsored links.
Better idea:
https://ssl.scroogle.org/
This is ssl secured and just as fast, so neither google nor your ISP can see your search terms. It’s what I use while searching for transvestite midget porn. There are firefox plugins to use from the search box here:
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=scroogle&sherlock=yes&opensearch=yes
wtf is that “yahoo”?