Google Reaches Second-Most Visited Site Status

Another anonymous reader has written to mention a story carried by Bloomberg, which has the news that Google is the second-most visited site on the internet. This puts it out in front of Yahoo!, which previously held the position. Google is now just behind Microsoft which, as the submitter pointed out, is the site that IE defaults to. From the article: "Visitors to Google's sites rose 9.1 percent to 475.7 million in November from a year earlier, while those to Yahoo sites rose 5.2 percent to 475.3 million, ComScore Networks Inc. said today. Both sites trail Microsoft, which had 501.7 million visitors, ComScore said. It is the first time that Mountain View, California-based Google attracted more visitors than Yahoo, reflecting Google's growing popularity outside the U.S."

Comments

Re:What about Microsoft?

[AchiIIe]

I agree, I would like to see this list
According to: http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500
1) Yahoo
2) Microsoft
3) Google

according to the article
1) MSN
2) Google
3) Yahoo

so the lists are ugh, exactly reversed?
I'd love to know what methodology they used.

Re:What about Microsoft?

[dwater]

...correct me if I'm wrong, but that behaviour makes no sense at all.

Re:Why so late?

[Reality Master 101]

The only thing I'm wondering is what the hell took them so long.

Keep in mind this is comparing domain traffic. Yahoo is much broader than Google in terms of services.