Nielsen Branding Shows Why Microsoft Wants Yahoo! in Google Fight (MSFT, YHOO, GOOG)
Nielsen has released its top aggregate sites by parent company for January 2008, and it starts getting even more clear why this super-merger on the web is being pursued. Below is the TOP 10 broken down by the related "parent…
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Nielsen has released its top aggregate sites by parent company for January 2008, and it starts getting even more clear why this super-merger on the web is being pursued. Below is the TOP 10 broken down by the related "parent companies", and this combines "work and home" inside the U.S.:
Unique Time Per
Audience Person
Parent (000) (hh:mm:ss)
1. Google 124,279 1:37:35
2. Microsoft 121,920 2:22:33
3. Yahoo! 113,874 3:19:43
4. Time Warner 104,837 3:57:38
5. News Corp. 75,831 2:02:49
6. eBay 65,758 2:04:37
7. InterActiveCorp 65,691 0:24:37
8. Amazon 59,833 0:27:47
9. Wikimedia 56,049 0:18:32
10. New York Times 51,624 0:20:26
As far as TOP BRANDS, the list is as follows:
Unique Time Per
Audience Person
Brand (000) (hh:mm:ss)
1. Google 117,841 1:11:03
2. Yahoo! 112,784 3:20:18
3. Microsoft 98,289 0:51:16
4. MSN/Windows Live 95,397 2:07:59
5. AOL Media 90,058 4:10:21
6. YouTube 67,509 0:47:15
7. Fox Interactive-M 65,849 2:10:14
8. eBay 56,199 2:09:55
9. Wikipedia 55,587 0:18:32
10. Amazon 51,220 0:25:32
Keep in mind that this is not the survey on search. You can visitwww.nielsen-online.com to see the past comparison data. While Google(NASDAQ: GOOG)has been top dog for a while, it is sure easy to see whyMicrosoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) wants to gobble up Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO).
Jon C. Ogg
February 14, 2008
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