Yahoo hasn't really dethroned Google as king of the internet... yet

Marissa Mayer's resurgent company placed number one in web traffic for July. But a coronation might be premature.

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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is on a hot streak, and her once beleaguered internet company appears to be making major strides to once again becoming the web's premier portal.

For the first time since May 2011, Yahoo has passed Google in monthly visitors. Marketing Land reports that Yahoo quietly posted 196.6 million unique visitors for the month of July, while Google racked up just 192.3 million uniques. Those figures come from comScore's monthly report of the top 50 web properties.

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Chris Gayomali is the science and technology editor for TheWeek.com. Previously, he was a tech reporter at TIME. His work has also appeared in Men's Journal, Esquire, and The Atlantic, among other places. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.