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The Top 20 Websites for Week Ending January 30, 2010 are shown below. Google, Facebook and Yahoo Mail take the Top 3 spots.

When Haiti was rocked by an earthquake of historical proportions yesterday, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook suddenly became a voice for both those in and out of Haiti.  As news organizations scrambled to send correspondents to Haiti, images and videos began to be uploaded and shared via Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.    CNN, Fox News, and [...]

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The following report shows websites for the industry “Computers and Internet – Search Engines”, ranked by Visits for the week ending November 28, 2009.

Experian Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 70.60 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Oct. 31, 2009. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received 16.14 percent, 9.57 percent and 2.62 percent, respectively. The remaining 52 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.10 percent of [...]

Facebook and YouTube Combined Account for Nearly 10 Percent of Time Spent Online Globally
comScore  today released a study of online engagement at the top worldwide properties based on data from its comScore World Metrix service. The study found that Microsoft Sites captured nearly 15 percent of time spent online worldwide in September, making [...]

Internet

Top 10 Global Web Parent Companies, Home & Work
August 2009

Rank
Parent
Unique Audience (000)
Active Reach %
Time Per Person (HH:MM:SS)

1
Google
349,662
84.10
2:46:34

2
Microsoft
312,576
75.18
3:09:59

3
Yahoo!
237,129
57.03
2:22:42

4
Facebook
185,449
44.60
5:18:12

5
eBay
159,086
38.26
1:38:04

6
AOL LLC
136,611
32.86
2:21:21

7
Wikimedia Foundation
136,376
32.80
0:15:13

8
News Corp. Online
132,467
31.86
1:22:39

9
InterActiveCorp
112,610
27.08
0:13:53

10
Amazon
111,517
26.82
0:22:45

Source: Nielsen NetView

Online visitation to travel sites gained as Americans began planning and preparing for their summer vacations. The end of another school year resulted in an increase of interest at gaming sites. Career services and development sites saw strong growth due to the influx of recent college graduates entering the job market, in addition to a rising unemployment rate.

Nielsen reports June 2009 data for the Top Parent Companies and Top Web Brands, as well as average Internet usage.

The data indicates that 59.6 million home and work Internet users visited at least one of the Amazon-owned sites or launched an Amazon-owned application during the month, and each person spent, on average, a total [...]

The following report shows search engines for the industry ‘All Categories’, ranked by Volume of Searches for the 4 weeks ending 06/27/2009.

Data Source: Hitwise