The MySpace Web site deemed a virtual clubhouse where teenagers bare details of their lives has eclipsed Internet oldster Yahoo as the most popular US Web site, a research firm said on Tuesday.
Yahoo rejected the claim as "misleading" because it ranked the search engine's domains such as search, news and e-mail separately instead of adding them together.
MySpace.com got more online visitors than the Yahoo or Yahoo Mail Web sites last week, according to Hitwise, an online intelligence service based in New York City.
Yahoo said it wasn't accurate to compare MySpace traffic to that at one of the separate Internet doors used to reach the Sunnyvale, California, Internet company's services.
"When taking into account all of Yahoo's domains together as an entire network, Yahoo clearly remains the number one property in terms of audience share, duration share, page view share and days visited per month," the company said in a release.
Yahoo calculated that it attracted 129 million "unique visitors" in the US monthly while MySpace drew fewer.
Yahoo contended it was the world's most trafficked Internet destination, with 500 million visitors monthly.
MySpace eked out a victory over Yahoo by getting 4.46 percent of the total US Internet traffic as compared to Yahoo Mail's 4.42 percent for the week ending July 8, Hitwise reported.
MySpace also has an e-mail site that was ranked separately by Hitwise.
MySpace dominated when compared to other social networking sites, accounting for 79.97 percent of online visits as compared to the 7.58 percent of the traffic that went to second-place Facebook, according to Hitwise.
"MySpace continues its meteoric rise, to now claim the number one spot for all Internet visits in the US," Bill Tancer, general manager of Global Research at Hitwise, said in a release.
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