Google passes Yahoo as second-most visited Web site

Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Dec 25, 2006 by Bloomberg News

Google Inc. displaced Yahoo! Inc. as the world's second-most visited Web site in November and closed in on leader Microsoft Corp., a market researcher said Friday.

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. Both sites trail Microsoft, which had 501.7 million visitors, ComScore said.

It is the first time that Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., attracted more visitors than Yahoo, reflecting Google's growing popularity outside the United States. Yahoo, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., is still the most-visited site within the United States, said ComScore, which is based in Reston, Va.Microsoft's visitors increased 3.3 percent from a year earlier.

Yahoo's outside public relations agency didn't immediately have a comment.