Google is Back to No. 1 on the Internet
As I've long maintained, there is only one directory, one video network, one email resource to be truly concerned with: Google. Confirming this, Google’s websites had more than one billion unique visitors in May, the first time an Internet company has hit that benchmark, according to comScore.
Since then, Google’s search engine and Gmail email service have grabbed market share and the company bought video site YouTube, among other moves that led to its rise. Here's how they stack up:
Google: 1,000,000,000+ unique visitors, up by 8.4%
Microsoft: 905,000,000, up by 15%
Facebook: 714,000,000, up by 30%
Yahoo: 689,000,000, up by 10.8%
Marketers are increasingly focused on the amount of time Internet users spend on a site. By that measure, Facebook leads the pack. The social network surpassed Google in November and Microsoft earlier this year in terms of the time users spent on its site, according to comScore. In May, Internet users spent 250 billion minutes on Facebook, up about 66.6% from a year earlier. Users spent 204 billion minutes on Microsoft sites, down 13.6%. Google was up 13% to about 200 billion minutes per month.
