<div>Google has been the most visited site of 2011 in US, with Facebook coming a close second, a new study has revealed.</div><div><br /></div><div>The survey, conducted by Nielsen, suggests that more than 153 million visitors clicked onto Google branded pages each month, while Facebook attracted close to 138 million visitors.</div><div><br /></div><div>As Yahoo came third with about 130 million visitors each month, analysts warned that the site's tally might be at risk if young people continued to turn away from web-based email, the BBC reported.</div><div><br /></div><div>The study is based on data collected between January and October and included visits from home and work computers. It involved a sample from a global panel of 200,000 people.</div><div><br /></div><div>Although Google trumped Facebook as the most popular web brand, it's Google+ network came far behind the social networking site in Nielsen's ranking of the most popular social networks and blogs.</div><div><br /></div><div>Google+ came eighth in the list with 8.02m unique monthly visitors.</div><div><br /></div><div>Google's YouTube was identified as the most popular destination for online videos, attracting more than three times the number of monthly visitors as the music video service Vevo.</div><div><br /></div><div>The list, prepared by Nielsen, of the number of visitors to various websites is as follows -</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Google</div><div><br /></div><div>153,441,000</div><div><br /></div><div>2. Facebook</div><div><br /></div><div>137,644,000</div><div><br /></div><div>3. Yahoo</div><div><br /></div><div>130,121,000</div><div><br /></div><div>4. MSN/WindowsLive/Bing</div><div><br /></div><div>115,890,000</div><div><br /></div><div>5. YouTube</div><div><br /></div><div>106,692,000</div><div><br /></div><div>6. Microsoft</div><div><br /></div><div>83,691,000</div><div><br /></div><div>7. AOL Media Network</div><div><br /></div><div>74,633,000</div><div><br /></div><div>8. Wikipedia</div><div><br /></div><div>62,097,000</div><div><br /></div><div>9. Apple</div><div><br /></div><div>61,608,000</div><div><br /></div><div>10. Ask Search Network</div><div><br /></div><div>60,552,000</div>        

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