18 Mar
Facebook overtakes Google.
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Something amazing happened last week in the internet world. The unstoppable force, met the immovable object. And finally, somebody has toppled the giant that is Google, In America anyway.
Facebook reached an important milestone for the week ending March 13, 2010 and surpassed Google in the US to become the most visited website for the week. Facebook.com recently reached the #1 ranking on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day as well as the weekend of March 6th and 7th. The market share of visits to Facebook.com increased 185% last week as compared to the same week in 2009, while visits to Google.com increased 9% during the same time frame. Together Facebook.com and Google.com accounted for 14% of all US Internet visits last week.
Even though Google has a higher percentage share of the market in the UK than it does in the US. It’s only a matter of time in my opinion before Facebook becomes more visited than Google in the UK. All the teenagers in our family seem to live on the website, checking it 20, 30 times a day. And as smartphones become more affordable and the kids all start using iphones, the usage is going to skyrocket as they will be quite literally plugged into facebook all day long, and annoying this bitter old mid 30′s bloke with the constant updates, application invites, event attending and general nonsense.
Matt.
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