Computer and Library Learning (Archived)

comScore released its “Media Matrix Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Properties for March 2011” yesterday. Yahoo! was the top American web destination in March 2011 with some 179,525,000 unique visitors. Google was a close second with 176,847,000, followed by Microsoft sites at 176,411,000. Facebook and AOL rounded out the top 5 web sites with over 100 million unique visitors at 152,968,000 and 118,194,000 respectively.

Yahoo placed second in the travel sites category with 12.6 million behind TravelAdNetwork at 19.9 million visitors. Google Ad Network topped the March 2011 ad focus ranking with a 91.7% reach of online Americans. Yahoo! Sites was second with 84.4%, followed by Yahoo! Network Plus at 83.9% and AOL Advertising at 83.8%.

Some branches of Toronto Public Library offer an internet workshop called Web Basics III: Advanced Internet Searching in which instructors teach advanced searching techniques on Google and also introduce workshop participants to Yahoo Canada and Ask.com. Call 416-393-7131 or check the Computer & Library Training programs and classes section on the TPL website for details.