Web’s Top Properties the Usual Suspects (GOOG, YHOO, MSFT, FB, AOL, AMZN, WMT, TGT)

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Internet research firm comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) today released its rankings of the top web properties for the month of May. The top 5 of the 50 sites ranked by unique visitors is pretty much the same as it ever was:

  1. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) sites – 189 million unique visitors
  2. Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) site – 167 million unique visitors
  3. Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) sites – 164 million unique visitors
  4. Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) sites – 158 million unique visitors
  5. Aol, Inc. (NYSE: AOL) sites – 110 million unique visitors

The top retail sites are Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) ranks 6th with 99 million unique visitors and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) ranks 24th with 42 million unique visitors. Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) which used to be among the top 50 sites, has dropped off.

The full ranking is available here.

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Paul Ausick has been writing for a673b.bigscoots-temp.com for more than a decade. He has written extensively on investing in the energy, defense, and technology sectors. In a previous life, he wrote technical documentation and managed a marketing communications group in Silicon Valley.

He has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Chicago and now lives in Montana, where he fishes for trout in the summer and stays inside during the winter.

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