IP Democracy: Google is Top Site, Top Brand

In news that’s not really surprising, Google has overtaken Microsoft as the top most-visited site, according to the latest comScore rankings. Google had 528 million unique visitors in March, up 5% over February’s visitors — Microsoft had 527 million visitors during March, up 3.7 percent over the previous month.

Until now, Microsoft and its affiliated sites had been the most visited online properties since comScore began tracking global visitor data in January 2006. Little wonder that the red-faced software titan had no comment on the latest data.

Adding salt to Microsoft’s wounds, a British research company Millward Brown released the results of its “most powerful brand” survey on Monday which found that the Mountain View-based juggernaut is the most powerful brand in the world, behind GE, Microsoft and Coca-Cola. The brand name is theoretically worth $66.4 billion.

This is all really great for Google but…if the knives were out for the phenomenally successful company before, these latest accolades are only going to make the envy-driven hatred of Google all that much stronger.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on April 25, 2007 12:33 PM to IP Democracy