comScore reports that Google surged past Microsoft last month to become Canada's most visited web property. This is the first time that Google has been number 1 in Canada and everyone knows that when Google takes the lead in something it's usually for good. Yahoo, Facebook and EBay round out the top 5 most visited web properties in Canada.

Top 25 Properties by Number of Canadian Unique Visitors *January 2008 vs. December 2007 Total Canada - Home and Work Locations** Source: comScore Media Metrix
Jan-08 Rank	Dec-07 Rank	Property	Total Unique Visitors (000) Jan-08
N/A	N/A	Total Internet : Total Audience	23,802
1	2	Google Sites	22,440
2	1	Microsoft Sites	22,424
3	3	Yahoo! Sites	16,481
4	4	Facebook.com	15,354
5	5	eBay	13,856
6	6	Wikipedia Sites	11,683
7	N/A	AOL LLC***	10,707
8	7	Yellow Pages Group	9,746
9	8	Amazon Sites	9,521
10	9	Apple Inc.	8,684
11	10	Canoe Network	8,596
12	13	Fox Interactive Media	8,084
13	15	CTVglobemedia	7,876
14	12	CNET Networks	7,706
15	11	The Weather Network Meteomedia	7,702
16	16	New York Times Digital	7,532
17	14	Ask Network	7,309
18	18	Viacom Digital	6,374
19	20	CBC-Radio Canada Sites	6,226
20	19	Adobe Sites	6,073
21	N/A	Time Warner - Excluding AOL***	5,583
22	22	Gorilla Nation	5,462
23	21	WhitePages	4,939
24	35	Expedia Inc	4,890
25	24	TD Bank Financial Group	4,573

*Ranking based on the top 100 Canadian 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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