There was good news for Microsoft in its battle for the Web Dominance. New figures from market research firm comScore found that the firm was the most engaging global property online in September.

Data from the comScore World Metrix service found that Microsoft Sites captured nearly 15 per cent of time spent online worldwide in September, putting it into first place ahead of Google and Yahoo.

Facebook.com retained its 4th position with impressive growth withvisitors spending 1,4 billion hours on the site in September. This is 193% growth over last year same month.

Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger represented nearly 70 per cent of time spent on the property during the month, while for Google, YouTube was its most popular site, accounting for nearly half of total time spent (1.2 billion hours) on the property.

While Microsoft remained top dog in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East – Africa regfions, however, Yahoo triumphed in North America.

Analysis

This is an interesting finding, and surprising is not the Microsoft’s top position but Facebook’s growth is. With the same growth it is on its way to overtake all the three web giants very soon. This will mean a single site Social Media winning over companies covered over news massup to search to social media.

Microsoft is certainly losing its might in most areas of web to mostly the Google’s rival applications; but its achievement with its new search engine Bing is incredible. Will have to see if it can keep the MS might in Web alive longer.