Google and Facebook become First and Second best US Web brand in the year 2011

Google became the most visited web brand in the year 2011 while facebook trailing behind it came to be the Second.Facebook remains a trade name for social Networking while Google for the Search. nielson.com Google has attracted more than 153,441 thousand unque visitors per month  while facebook managed to attract 137,664 thousands unique visitors per month.Another web brand Yahoo came at the third position wit 130,121 thousand Unique visitors per month. Msn was fourth and You Tube Fifth.

Neilson has separated  YouTube  from Google. Microsoft was also seperated from MSn.If this was not done then Facebook was to come in third place behind Google and Microsoft. 

In Social Networking and Blogs Category: Facebook topped the chart with 137.64 million US  Visitors while Blogger  far behind Facebook in Second Position with 45.71 million US Visitors followed by Twitter (23.57 million), WordPress (20.36 million), Myspace (17.94 million), LinkedIn (17.02 million), Tumblr (10.88 million), Google+ (8.21 million), Yahoo Pulse (8.06 million), and Six Apart TypePad (7.79 million).

In Video Category ,YouTube topped the chart with 111 million US Viisitors. Here are the top 10 Web brands: YouTube (111.15 million), Vevo (34.58 million), Facebook (29.80 million), Yahoo (25.32 million), MSN/WindowsLive/Bing (16.56 million), AOL Media Network (13.33 million), Hulu (13.16 million), The CollegeHumor Network (12.50 million), CNN Digital Network (8.26 million), Netflix (7.42 million).

Here's the Ranking table in various category as provided by Nielson:

In Overall:

Top 10 U.S. Web Brands in 2011
Rank	Web Brand	Avg # of Unique Visitors (000) per month
1	Google	153,441
2	Facebook	137,644
3	Yahoo!	130,121
4	MSN/WindowsLive/Bing	115,890
5	YouTube	106,692
6	Microsoft	83,691
7	AOL Media Network	74,633
8	Wikipedia	62,097
9	Apple	61,608
10	Ask Search Network	60,552
Source: Nielsen

In Social Networking and Blogs category

Top 10 U.S. Social Networks & Blogs
Rank	Web Brand	Avg # of Unique Visitors (000) per month
1	Facebook	137,644
2	Blogger	45,712
3	Twitter.com	23,574
4	WordPress.com	20,357
5	Myspace.com	17,935
6	LinkedIn	17,020
7	Tumblr	10,879
8	Google+	8,207
9	Yahoo! Pulse	8,063
10	Six Apart TypePad	7,793
	Source: Nielsen

In Video Destination Category

Top 10 U.S. Online Destinations for Video
Rank	Web Brand	Avg # of Unique Video Viewers per month
1	YouTube	111,152
2	VEVO	34,580
3	Facebook	29,802
4	Yahoo!	25,324
5	MSN/WindowsLive/Bing	16,563
6	AOL Media Network	13,327
7	Hulu	13,159
8	The CollegeHumor Network	12,496
9	CNN Digital Network	8,262
10	Netflix	7,418
Source: Nielsen