Michael Cooney
Senior Editor

YouTube knocks off MySpace

Opinion
Aug 2, 20061 min

It seems like it had been months since we saw a plethora of “Most Popular Site on the Web” stories, now we can’t swing Steve Ballmer’s office chair without hitting one.

A few weeks ago we told you how MySpace bested Yahoo, Google, et. al. for the No. 1 site on the ‘Net honors. Now research from “Internet analysis” firm Alexa claims YouTube is No. 1.

Writes The Guardian: “The video sharing site has taken a 3.9% share of global internet visits a day compared with 3.35% for MySpace.”

And it looks like we’ll soon have another No. 1 as YouTube may be considering an IPO, which will surely kill any momentum.