This time Yahoo still the third biggest website on the Internet after Google and Microsoft sites, with 622 million unique visitors worldwide in July. But the gap between Yahoo and Facebook is only 50 million visitors and if current trends continue, by year’s end yahoo will lose 3rd position to Facebook. Facebook has 572 million unique visitors in July according to comScore. Google as the biggest company online, facing the the great challenge from social networking sites. Yahoo, the web portal turned media company has been enjoying a solid third place worldwide when it comes to audience, ensuring it some healthy revenue and the luxury of figuring out what it wants to be. But Facebook is gaining fast in terms of unique visitors and may very well overtake Yahoo to become the third largest site on the web by the end of the year and probably sooner.
In July, Facebook gained 20 million visitors from the month before, whereas Yahoo stayed completely flat. This clearly showing that nobody is quitting Facebook over privacy issue or any other issues arise in recent past. Yahoo has about 620 million visitors, according to comScore, enough to place it behind Google and Microsoft globally. Facebook keeps on growing, by 50 percent in the past year in terms of unique visitors. It now gets about 570 million unique visitors each month, very close to Yahoo's numbers. Facebook now officially says it has 500 million active users, coz the unique visitors doesn't translate into registered users.
Facebook also overtakes Google's social networking platform Orkut in India. India, one of the few countries where Orkut retained the top spot amongst social networking websites. According to marketing research company comScore, Facebook grabbed the number one ranking in the social networking category for the first time in July with 20.9 million visitors, up 179 per cent versus year ago. Orkut registered a growth of only 16 per cent in the same time period.
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