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comScore: Google, Not Yahoo, Now Top Destination

As Google trounced Yahoo in various fields, fans of the second company could always point out that its sites received more U.S. traffic overall.  New comScore stats show that this is no longer true.

Google Almost At 80 Percent In Europe

Europe's full of different countries, and all that impressive European Union stuff aside, it's hard to believe they've got much in common.  Yet judging from new comScore statistics, it seems as if Google is the sort of thing that'll generate smiles, or at least recognition, everywhere.

comScore Succeeds In First Quarter

Even the worst earnings announcements try to spin things in a positive way; it's necessary to do a little deep-reading to find out what really happened.  comScore's first-quarter earnings just didn't have any bad components, though, and the company's stock is up about 20 percent this morning as a result.

A Third Of UK Internet Users Bank Online

Online financial services are used by about a third of the total U.K. online population, according to a new comScore report.Thirty-three percent of UK Internet users did online banking in January, accounting for 10.9 million customers who used at least one online account in the first month of the year.The most popular online banking brand was the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) with 2.9 million visitors, driven largely by the 2 million people who accessed NatWest's online banking service.

ComScore CEO: Real Google Click Story Missed

Magid Abraham fired back after Google's quarterly financial report seemed to refute comScore's claims that paid clicks declined for the search advertising giant.

AOL Web Sites See Steady Growth

AOL's programming sites reached an all-time high in March, after growing for six consecutives months in both unique visitors and page views.In March, page views on AOL's programming sites (Money & Finance, News, Sports, Health and others) increased 28 percent and are up 35 percent year over year, with unique visitors growing 11 percent year over year to 56.5 million.

Google's Earnings Cause Trouble For comScore

Overjoyed investors have made Google's stock go up by about 20 percent since the company reported its earnings.  comScore, on the other hand, temporarily lost eight or so percent of its value.

Yahoo Sites Top Properties In March

Yahoo Sites continued as the top property in March with 139.5 million visitors, followed by Google Sites with 137.5 million visitors and Microsoft Sites with 121 million visitors according to comScore Media Metrix.

AOL Beats Google In Reach And Time Spent In Russia

The average Russian Internet user went online 13 days in February, spent an average of 82 minutes per day online, and viewed 2,322 pages of content during the month according to comScore World Metrix.Russian language search engine Yandex reached 62 percent of the Russian online audience, making it the leading Web property in February, followed by Mail.Ru sites (51% reach), Rambler Media (49 percent reach), AOL (42 percent reach) and Google Sites (41% reach).

Pregnancy Most Searched Health Condition In February

The terms "pregnancy" and "cancer" were the two most frequently searched health conditions in February, receiving 8.8 million and 7.7 million search queries respectively according to comScore.Other health conditions that were frequently searched in February include "flu" (1.8 million), depression also (1.8 million), followed by diabetes (1.7 million) and addiction (1.4 million).