By Kevin Maney
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MySpace, the new champion

Web research firm HitWise just sent me its latest study, and it says that for the first time, MySpace is the No. 1 Web site in the USA based on market share of visits. The way HitWise ranks sites, Yahoo Mail is second, Yahoo third and Google fourth.

What's really astounding is MySpace market share among social networking sites. HitWise says MySpace has 80% of the market. No. 2 Facebook comes in at 7.6%.

The rankings:

Weekly Market Share of Visits Ranking Among All Websites (U.S.)
Rank Name Domain Market Share
1 MySpace www.myspace.com 4.46%
2 Yahoo! Mail mail.yahoo.com 4.42%
3 Yahoo! www.yahoo.com 4.25%
4 Google www.google.com 3.89%
5 MySpace - Mail mail.myspace.com 2.85%
6 MSN Hotmail www.hotmail.com 2.39%
7 MSN www.msn.com 1.92%
8 eBay www.ebay.com 1.59%
9 Yahoo! Search search.yahoo.com 1.36%
10 MSN Search search.msn.com 0.93%

Data for the week ending July 8, 2006
Source: Hitwise (www.hitwise.com)

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