Cloud Computing: Yahoo Trumps Google As Most-Visited Website
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Kristin Burnham.
For the first time since 2011, Yahoo ranks as the most-visited website in the U.S., according to the latest report from ComScore, which tracks unique visitors to U.S. properties across the Web. Yahoo received 196.6 million unique visitors in the month of July compared to Google’s 192.3 million. Microsoft, Facebook and AOL rounded out the top five.
According to the report, Yahoo saw 20% more unique visitors in July 2013 as compared to July 2012. Traffic to Tumblr, the blogging platform that Yahoo acquired in May for $1.1 billion, did not contribute to Yahoo’s overall traffic number, said Andrew Lipsman, ComScore’s VP of industry analysis. Tumblr ranked as the 28th most popular U.S. property in July, according to the report. The latest ComScore numbers also do not include mobile usage…
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