CONSUMER ACTION
Published: December 27, 2005
Google Doesn't Top Portal/Net Services Lists
 

Yahoo! is most visited search engine for the week ending December 11, but AOL's Instant Messenger gets more action than Yahoo! Mail.

Top 10 Online Search Engines/Portals & Communities Destinations

Brand or Channel Unique Audience
(000)
Active Reach
(%)
Time Per Person (hh:mm:ss)
Yahoo! 69,659 53.9 1:11:56
MSN 61,280 47.41 0:38:48
Google 56,150 43.44 0:20:27
AOL 49,643 38.41 2:09:05
MySpace 14,775 11.43 0:54:09
Lycos Network 9,360 7.24 0:04:49
Ask Jeeves 6,454 4.99 0:05:02
Netscape 6,407 4.96 0:17:31
Blogger 6,328 4.9 0:07:45
AT&T 4,579 3.54 0:29:33
Source: Nielsen//NetRatings


Top 10 Online Telecom/Internet Services Destinations
Brand or Channel Unique Audience
(000)
Active Reach
(%)
Time Per Person (hh:mm:ss)
AOL Instant Messenger 36,780 28.46 1:14:27
Yahoo! Mail 32,464 25.14 0:44:47
AOL Email 24,273 18.78 0:59:31
Microsoft Passport 24,050 18.61 0:02:53
MSN Hotmail 19,972 15.45 0:28:41
MSN Messenger Service 16,316 12.62 0:35:31
Yahoo! Address Book 15,115 11.69 0:04:07
Real 14,944 11.56 0:22:28
Yahoo! Messenger 13,403 10.37 0:58:01
AOL Screenname 10,174 7.87 0:03:45
Source: Nielsen//NetRatings

Week Ending December 11, 2005
US, Home and Work

Note: NetView traffic figures incorporate AOL Proprietary Channels and Internet Applications Tracking with regular web traffic data. This data CANNOT be trended against data prior to week ending Nov. 10, 2002.



Top 10 Health Advertisers
Company Impressions
(000)
Novartis AG 190,594
Pfizer, Inc. 72,199
TAP Pharmaceutical 65,202
Lilly ICOS 54,587
The Procter & Gamble Company 50,607
Curb Your Cravings, LLC. 21,101
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP 20,752
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 20,705
eDiets.com, Inc. 19,610
PacifiCare Health Systems 19,445
Source: Nielsen//NetRatings


Top 10 Hardware and Electronics Advertisers

Company Impressions
(000)
Dell Computer Corportation 594,520
Toshiba Corporation 159,984
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. 117,311
Hewlett Packard Company 63,125
Intel Corporation 25,407
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. 20,885
Royal Philips Electronics 18,305
Sony Corportation 17,913
Echostar Communications Corporation 17,463
Bose Corporation 17,016

Source: Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance
Week Ending December 11, 2005
US, Home and Work

Note: All online advertising data excludes house ads which are advertisements run on an advertiser's own web property.

Note: Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance reporting data reflects advertising activity served on pages accessible via the World Wide Web and not within AOL's proprietary service.