ComScore puts Google sites at No. 1 for first time

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The comScore data come from its Media Metrix panel, recruited primarily using random phone-based techniques.

ComScore recently took heat for its data on paid search clicks, which come from a larger panel that relies heavily on online recruitment techniques dismissed by many more traditional pollsters.

In that case, however, Wall Street concerns that the faltering U.S. economy could bog down Google resulted largely from investors and analysts ignoring comScore's advice on how to interpret the paid-click data. Google wound up surpassing the analysts' predictions in producing a first-quarter profit of 30 percent.

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