Facebook Overtakes Google Search By Hitwise Reports
Hitwise, the well known web analysis company, said on its Analyst Weblog that Facebook was the most visited site last week, overtaking Google Search for the first time.
Hitwise official blog says 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.
Hitwise suggests that Google Search accounted for 7.03% of US Internet visits last week, compared to 7.07% for Facebook.
If Google's non-search services (Gmail, YouTube, Maps etc) are also included, Google remains in the lead with 11.03% of US Visits. Yahoo also beats Facebook, with 10.98% of US visits.
The Hitwise article includes this striking chart comparing the growth of Google Search and Facebook over the past year. Google Search has grown its traffic share just a few percent, whereas Facebook's is more than two and a half times what it was just a year ago.
This mean that social sites are going to overtake search sites on the internet? Not so fast we might be seeing a see-sawing back and forth. In 2007 it was MySpace that was ahead of Google. These are the signals that people are looking for connecting people besides search.
Watch the video from Newsy on how facebook dominted Google:
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