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DATA MINE Dec. 23, 1999 U.S. Cyber Brands Lead in Europe While more European companies are establishing a Web presence, U.S. cyber brands dominate the Internet in at least three key countries. More than half of the top 10 sites visited by Netizens in France, Germany, and Britain are U.S.-based or local affiliates of American brands. Sites run by America Online, GeoCities, Microsoft, MSN, and Yahoo! figured in the top 10 in all three countries, according to Media Metrix. Top 10 Internet Sites   Britain Germany France 1 Yahoo! T-Online Wanadoo 2 Freeserve Yahoo! Yahoo! 3 MSN AOL Multimania 4 Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft 5 AOL Lycos AOL 6 GeoCities Netscape Voila 7 Demon Tripod Club-Internet 8 Amazon MSN AltaVista 9 Excite Puretec MSN 10 BBC GeoCities GeoCities DATA: Media Metrix _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BACK TO TOP					MORE NUGGETS The Mother Lode Collected nuggets from Data Mine