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Google, Microsoft and Ebay tops in January

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

source: comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, released its January rankings of the largest and fastest-growing Internet properties and site categories in the U.K. based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service. The month saw increases to travel, career, tax, and real estate sites as U.K. Internet users took stock of the past year and made plans for 2008.

Top 25 Properties for January 2008

Top 25 Properties by Number of U.K. Unique Visitors*
January 2008 vs. December 2007
Total U.K., Age 15+ - Home and Work Locations**
Source: comScore World Metrix

Jan-08 Rank

Dec-07 Rank

Property

Total Unique Visitors (000)      Jan-08

N/A

N/A

 Total Internet : Total Audience

33,254

1

1

 Google Sites

29,633

2

2

 Microsoft Sites

28,102

3

3

 eBay

21,363

4

4

 Yahoo! Sites

21,208

5

5

 BBC Sites

19,176

6

6

 Amazon Sites

14,628

7

8

 Ask Network

14,542

8

9

 Wikipedia Sites

14,005

9

10

 FACEBOOK.COM

12,840

10

15

 Lycos Europe Sites

11,886

11

11

 Fox Interactive Media

11,816

12

N/A

 AOL LLC*

11,372

13

14

 BEBO.COM

11,359

14

13

 Apple Inc.

11,217

15

18

 DMGT

10,722

16

16

 CNET Networks

9,525

17

12

 Home Retail Group

9,219

18

17

 Tesco Stores

8,827

19

20

 British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB)

8,097

20

60

 Moneysupermarket.com Financial Group

6,627

21

23

 Adobe Sites

6,554

22

31

 News International

6,359

23

55

 Expedia Inc

6,337

24

28

 Virgin Group

6,270

25

25

 Orange Sites

6,183

*Ranking based on the top 100 U.K. properties in January 2008.

** Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.
*** Beginning with January 2008 comScore data, Time Warner Network has now been divided into AOL LLC, which includes all AOL related entities, and Time Warner - Excluding AOL

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