Facebook Leapfrogs Google in Popularity Contest
Facebook Leapfrogs Google in Popularity Contest
Posted 03/17/2010 at 8:59am
| by Paul Lilly
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Need more evidence that Facebook rules the Internet? Try this one on for size. According to research firm Hitwise, Google blinked, and Facebook leapfrogged ahead of the search engine as the most popular destination on the Web.
Combined, the two sites accounted for 14 percent of all U.S. traffic last week, but individually, Facebook nudged ahead of the search giant by claiming 7.07 percent of the hits compared to Google's 7.03 percent.
This marks the first time Facebbok has ever been able to outpace Google for a week, and likely not the last. While the lead is small, Facebook continues to trend upwards, having grown from a little over 2 percent a year ago. Not only that, but Facebook's membership has more than doubled in the past year as well.
Not surprisingly, users are also spending more time on Facebook, logging on average almost 6.5 hours per week, compared to less than 2.5 hours on Google.
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Neufeldt2002
March 17, 2010 at 5:32pm
The bigger they are...
If facebook was the only portal to the Internet, I would cut my connection.
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dax
March 17, 2010 at 12:04pm
What about non-US traffic? If you say Facebook rules the internet, then you should know the internet has no boundaries
LGA1156
March 17, 2010 at 11:13am
Google is a search engine while facebook is a social network, of course more time is spent on facebook, I google a bunch a times a day, these are only for moments while I spend several minutes on facebook... they are different animals.
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