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Google, Facebook became most visited sites

04 January 2012 11:28 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Nijat Mustafayev â€“ APA-Economics. Google was the most popular website with US users in 2011 but Facebook was not far behind, according to market researchers. Nielsen suggests more than 153 million visitors clicked onto Google branded pages each month, as Facebook attracted close to 138 million visitors. Yahoo came third with about 130 million visitors each month. But analysts warned Yahoo’s tally might be at risk if young people continued to turn away from web-based email. The study is based on data collected between January and October and included visits from home and work computers. It involved a sample from a global panel of 200,000 people. Although Google trumped Facebook as the most popular web brand, the search giant’s Google+ network came far behind Mark Zuckerberg’s site in Nielsen’s ranking of the most popular social networks and blogs. Google+ came eighth in the list with 8.02m unique monthly visitors. That also put it behind Google’s weblog publishing tool Blogger, as well as Twitter, Wordspace, Myspace, Linkedin and Tumblr. Google’s YouTube was identified as the most popular destination for online videos, attracting more than three times the number of monthly visitors as the music video service Vevo.