Is Search Dead?
Did you hear? Facebook traffic Beat Google! Yes, I am a day late and a dollar short, but as much as this is all the rage in geek news, and a great piece of link juice; I didn’t really feel like getting up on the band wagon.
I have rolling it over in my head and wondering.. ok, ok, Facebook has beaten out Google..well, what does it all mean?
So we’ll start with reporting some facts that, if you had read anything in the past week, you already knew:
- HitWise reports that Facebook recently trumped Google as the top US visited website racking up a whopping total of 7.07% of all US visits on the entire internet for the week ending March 13, 2010.
- Facebook currently boasts 400 million users on its social network, which is more people than the entire US.
- The two sites accounted for 14 per cent of all US internet visits last week with Facebook’s home page recording 7.07 per cent of traffic and Google’s home page 7.03 per cent.
- In another recent report conducted by the research firm Nielsen, the results indicated internet users worldwide spent over five and a half hours per month on social networking websites during December 2009, an 82 per cent increase from December 2008.
I think it’s fair to say that Social Networking is more than a flash in the pan. (more…)
