Online, All the Time
According to the online tracking service www.comScore, Americans spent 302 billion minutes online in July—or the equivalent of 6,760 lifetimes, give or take. Americans’ favorite place to hang out on the World Wide Web was—no surprise here—Google.
The omnipresent search engine snagged 123 million visitors in July, seven million more than second-place Yahoo! Americans seem to love lots of search engines, with four of the five most popular sites being virtual portals to somewhere else.
YouTube was sixth on the list, while Wikipedia clocked in at No. 9. Facebook, which in July 2005 was the 236th most popular Web gathering point, is now No. 16. (Forbes)
