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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

MySpace is #1

Source: Bill Tancer's Hitwise blog

For the first time MySpace has surpassed Yahoo! Mail as the most visited domain on the Internet for US Internet users. To put MySpace growth in perspective, two years ago it represented only .1 percent of all Internet visits and one year ago it represented 1.9 percent of all Internet visits. This chart compares MySpace growth (blue) compared to Google (green).

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While Internet visits tell where people are going on the Internet, search term data confirms what people are actually thinking about. What are they thinking about? MySpace. The site also leads search terms driving traffic to all sites.

Posted by mwelch at 08:32 AM
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