Facebook passes Google in audience the United States - March 17, 2010
Revolution for Facebook. The website of social network increased for the first time before the search engine Google in court during the week of March 7 to 13 in the United States. So Facebook is the site most accessed according to a study conducted by the firm Hitwise and columns published in the Financial Times.
The home page of Facebook has represented 7.07% of U.S. Internet traffic against 7.03% for that of Google. The difference is small but very symbolic. A year ago, Facebook was only a little over 2% of visits. Google on the same period has increased very little (+ 1.03 point).
This reflects the doubling of the members of the community site (between April 2009 and February 2010) from 200 million to 400 million.To take advantage of this growth and meet the success of Facebook, Google has developed Google Buzz recently, its own community network.
Google remains the leading on all its sites
Hitwise figures only concern, however, that visits the site Google.com instant payday loans . This means that services such as Gmail, Google Maps or YouTube, which also belongs to Google, are excluded from the study. Taking into account all sites of Google, the company accounted for 11.03% of visits to U.S. websites consulted last week, against 10.98% for sites of Yahoo and 7.07% for Facebook.
U.S. Customers have spent nearly six hours and a half on Facebook cons less than two and a half hours on Google.Those around the world have spent more than five and a half hours on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook for the month of December 2009 an increase of 82% in one year according to a Nielsen study.
Although Facebook is growing, it still has some way to go to catch Google. Its turnover is estimated between 1 and 1.5 billion dollars this year (double that of 2009), instead of 23.7 billion earned by Google.
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