We know MySpace is talked about all the time, but the massive increases the site is recording recently are worth mentioning. It seems that every time we write about this company, its user base has
grown by 5-10 million. TechCrunch takes old MySpace stats from a
Business Week article in October of last year, and cross-references them with April 2006 data from comScore and the company
itself. In those six months, its user base has surged from 40 to 75 million--growing at an average clip of 240,000 users per day last month (a 60 percent increase since October). It now attracts 48
million monthly visitors--nearly 75 percent of what Yahoo, the largest Web property, totals--compared to 26.6 million in October '05. Perhaps most impressive is the growth in the number of pages
viewed by MySpace--up 119 percent to 27.4 billion from 12.5 billion in the last six months. Clearly, its users spend a lot of time there; one wonders if they even bother going anywhere else. Oh, by
the way, MySpace also has the sixth-largest share among search engines, even though it isn't technically a search engine. Reports have suggested the company is courting Google, Yahoo, and MSN to
upgrade its existing search model, which could be a serious boon for the winner.
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