Comscore: Google Tops Yahoo In Unique Visitors

Comscore released their stats for November, showing Google slightly edging out Yahoo for second place, 475.5 million visitors to 475.2 million (out of a total internet population of 736 million). Microsoft continued to hold first place, with 501.7 million visitors. This accounting combines all websites owned or maintained by the various companies, except YouTube, which is still counted seperately. Since YouTube has 107.9 million visitors, when its visitors are added to Google’s, Google may catch up to Microsoft, or even beat it, depending on how many of YouTube’s visitors are uniquely different from Google’s.
The full top 10, in millions of visitors:

1
Microsoft
501.7

2
Google
475.5

3
Yahoo
475.2

4
eBay
250.8

5
Time Warner
222.1

6
Wikipedia
171.9

7
Amazon
143.9

8
Fox Interactive
130.4

9
Ask Network
110.9

10
YouTube
107.9

Meanwhile, Nielsen Media Research released pageview numbers for 2006, showing that Yahoo was number one in pageviews, followed by MySpace and Google. The numbers, in billions of pageviews:

1
Yahoo
354.46

2
MySpace
250.66

3
Google
147.68

4
eBay
143.35

5
MSN/Windows Live
141.2

6
AOL
73.1

7
Craigslist
27.1

8
Nickelodeon
24.7

9
Comcast
23.5

10
Microsoft
23.2

Original post by Nathan Weinberg