Google tops mobile site rankings

Google Inc.’s search supremacy online continues to be handsomely carried over to mobile, according to the latest rankings of mobile Web companies from research and analysis firm M:Metrics.
Google was visited by 62.5% of smartphone users in the United States in April, and by nearly 31% in the United Kingdom. Yahoo Inc. handily carried the second-place spot, with more than 33.5% of smarphone users in the United States visiting the site, yet only 11% of U.K. users visited the site. The numbers put Yahoo in the ninth-place spot across the pond.
M:Metrics coupled the data from approximately 500 American panelists and 600 British panelists.
Microsoft Corp. carried the third-place spot in the United States with 33.4%, followed by AT&T Inc. with 21%. Time Warner Inc. nabbed 19%, The Walt Disney Company scored 17%, News Corp. had 15.5%, Sprint-Nextel Corp. had 15.39%, The Weather Channel Interactive Inc. had 15.28%, and eBay Inc. rounded out the top-ten list with 14%, according to the study.
In the United Kingdom, Orange Personal Communications Services Ltd. was visited by 21.7% of users, followed by British Broadcasting Corp. at 20.9%, Microsoft Corp. at 17.8%, Vodafone Group PLC with 16.8%, eBay Inc. with 13%, O2 Ltd. with 12.8%, Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. at 12.7%, Yahoo Inc. at nearly 11%, and Deutsche Telecom AG carried tenth place at 10.7%, the report found.