(RTTNews) - In yet another blow to Internet information provider Yahoo! Inc.
(YHOO), Google Inc.
(GOOG) took the number one spot in the U.S. web properties ranking from Yahoo for the first time in the month of April. Yahoo is already under pressure from various sources as it has been steadily losing its search engine market share.
A monthly analysis released by ComScore Inc.
(SCOR) for April revealed that Google sites had 141.1 million visitors, an increase of 18% from the same month last year. Meanwhile, Yahoo sites fell to second place with only 140.6 million visitors for the month, which is an increase of 17% from the year-ago period. Microsoft Corp.
(MSFT) was third with about 121 million visitors.
Google has long been the Internet's leader in search, but its audience has trailed Yahoo's when counting other services such as e-mail and photo sharing.
But now, Google has the Picasa online photo-sharing service, competing with Flickr from Yahoo. Google also has launched a site on finance, while its Gmail e-mail service keeps growing.
Google became the leading video-sharing Web site after its $1.76 billion purchase of YouTube in November 2006.
However, ComScore's analysis shows that Yahoo still leads in page views, with 33.6 billion page views, higher than Google's 28.7 billion page views. That suggests, Yahoo's 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.
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