Google wins over more Net users in June

Google won a bit of market share of U.S. Internet users from its top rivals in June, new statistics show.

(Credit: Nielsen Online)

Google's user tally increased from 127.6 million in May to 128 million in June, according to Nielsen Online. Meanwhile, Microsoft dipped a bit from 123.3 million to 123 million and Yahoo dropped from 115.6 million to 113.4 million.

Nielsen also measures time spent per user at each site, and there Google lags those two rivals, but by less. The time spent in May increased from 1 hour and 49 minutes to 1 hour and 50 minutes for Google; dropped from 3 hours and 13 minutes to 3 hours and 7 minutes for Yahoo; and dropped from 2 hours and 16 minutes to 2 hours and 12 minutes for Microsoft.

[Collin1000]

Google should be proud people spend less time on their site searching than others - it means they get to where they are going quickly. I see that as quite a good thing, not a bad thing.

[Penguinisto]

That, and one doesn't download patches from google.com ;)

[hawkeyeaz1]

Google intentionally made it so you spend as little time on their site as necessary--so you get what you want and remain happy. As for the cumulative time people spend a day (i.e. how many times they go to Google) is also loosely reflective of the same-you found what you wanted, you are happy, why go back until you have something else you need/want to Google? Good design.

[manodud]

what websites did InteractiveCorp include? where can I find details of these ratings?

[manodud]

couldn't find in their press release..

[Perry_Clease]

As some of you know when running OSX you can highlight text and Right-Click/Control-Click then chose, among other choices, "Search in Google. Hence I use Google a lot for searches.

[FutureGuy]

users spend more time on Microsoft and Yahoo since both provide their own content (like msnbc.com). Google is strictly a middle man.

[Penguinisto]

Actually, if they broke down the sub-sites on microsoft.com, I daresay the vast majority would fall towards windowsupdate.microsoft.com. ;)

[Shankland]

Actually, Google is becoming more and more a site with actual content, too. Blogger, Picasa, Google Finance, YouTube...

[Penguinisto]

I wonder what MSFT's share would be if they didn't count the hits to windowsupdate.microsoft.com, and discounted the fact that MSN is the default home page on IE? Doing so would be a far more reliable indicator of just how popular Microsoft's site actually is.

[DrtyDogg]

funny, I use IE and google is my home page.

[Penguinisto]

Not by default... IE always kicked to MSN as its "home" page.

[flickrz]

How reliable is this data by Neilsen Online? I am in the internet advertising industry and no body I know uses the data from compete.com or neilsen online. I am not sure why cnet.com cares to show this data to readers when they both always contradict each others? Most of the people in the industry use only ComScore data as it is little more reliable than neilsen or compete or alexa.