Google beats Yahoo as the most-visited Web site in the U.S.

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The bad news just doesn’t seem to end for Yahoo. As the Internet portal prepares to fend off a proxy fight by billionaire investor Carl Icahn, new research from comScore concludes that for the first time, Google has overtaken Yahoo as the most-visited Web site in the U.S. Google reached the pinnacle of the Top 50 U.S. Properties in April, with an audience of 141 million visitors, according to data from comScore’s monthly analysis. In April, more people used Google’s job search, career resources, and television sites, according to comScore.

Yahoo sites ranked second, with 140.6 million visitors, followed by Microsoft sites with 121.2 million visitors. Superpages.com Network, the online directory for local businesses, and jobs Web site CareerBuilder both jumped ahead eight spots to come in 18th and 30th, respectively, according to comScore. “April was a very active month. Google took the top property position, thanks to continued search growth and rapid growth at YouTube,” said Jack Flanagan, executive vice president of comScore Media Metrix, in a statement. “The return of the network television programs after the writers strike sent fans to a variety of sites to get information on their favorite shows, catch up on episodes they may have missed, get refreshed on plotlines, and to stream new episodes.”

Over the past years, Google has succeeded to make the step from a search engine website to a powerful provider of innovative Internet-based products. The Mountain View company has announced a series of future products, which are sure to boost their number of US and worldwide visitors. As we also informed you, the company is expected to release a major revival of its products sometime in the second quarter of this year. Yahoo will try to be more open to its users' preferences and is said to rethink and rebuild the Yahoo platform, inside-out.

But still, a large company such as Yahoo will most certainly try to step up to its name and provide its users with a better quality for their products and services. The company has been recently faced, just in February, with a $31per share request for acquisition from Microsoft. Steve Ballmer's company saw this acquisition as a means of providing Google with a serious competitor, by joining the knowledge and financial power of both companies.

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