Google.com To Be Number One By Late 2007
Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney says that, based on Comscore Data, Google will be the number one trafficked website by late next year. Comscore’s top 4 currently (September numbers) stand at:
- Yahoo - 130 million unique visitors
- Time Warner - 120 million
- Microsoft - 118 million
- Google - 110 million
The reason Google will soon top the list? 22% growth from the previous year. Of course, this does not appear to take into account the fact that Google now has YouTube, itself a top ten website, and that Orkut.com is showing surprisingly strong growth lately. According to Alexa, Google now has three top ten sites, besting any other competitor.
These graphs show google.com vs. yahoo, msn.com, live.com and youtube.com, and the second replaces youtube.com with orkut.com:
Now, Alexa numbers are as accurate as prewar assessments of Iraq, but they do give you the idea: Google has three winners in their stable, that combined top Microsoft’s two big sites (MSN and Live), as well as Yahoo’s #1. I’d like to see the Comscore numbers adding YouTube to Google.
(via Seeking Alpha > Found on Findory)
UPDATE: A VC has some great Comscore numbers and charts. It’s very interesting how different the US and worldwide numbers are. It looks like properties get popular in the US, then, if they last, they eventually get popular worldwide and have huge staying power after that point. As a result, while the US top ten has some recent additions, the international is topped by the big three, followed by a major gap, and then way down, some old guard (Time Warner, Amazon, eBay) and some sites that have just been around a while (Apple, Adobe, Lycos), plus Wikipedia.
Nice post. The problem is quite a bit of Google’s traffic is non-monetized. It is a old school metric to measure traffic.
Google leads a big notch above competitors if you look at the revenue generated per traffic measure. These guys are real smart and they know what they are doing. It took the mainstream a while to catch on that. Too bad I missed out the Google IPO at $85
Comment by Z C | November 19, 2006
Google is really getting into the video side of things with first the release of their own video search engine and now with the acquiring of YouTube, Google will grow even faster as a company as a whole. I am wondering what percent of people think that Google’s Acquistion of YouTube Is A Positive One in this Online Pole:
http://www34.brinkster.com/badger7776/entertaining_polls/Is_the_acquisition_of_YouTube_by_Google_a_Postive_One.htm
Comment by Entertaining Polls | November 21, 2006
Google’ success is a blow to freedom. Google, Microsft and Yahoo won’t allow me to advertise my website, www.chinaisevil.com, in America. The mainstream media won’t cover this story.
Chris Langdon
Comment by chris langdon | November 22, 2006