Facebook Attracting More Visitors Than Google.com

vikingpower writes "Internet research firm Hitwise just broke the news: last week, Facebook attracted 7.07 percent of the internet traffic in the USA, compared to 7.03 percent for Google. This is the first time google.com has been out of the top spot since it surpassed MySpace in 2007, and reflects a change in the way people use internet. They tend to privilege social interaction sites above 'passive' search engines." Facebook still has a ways to go if you include Google's non-search properties, which bring the total up to 11.03% of traffic.

facebook

[ionix5891]

pokes google

google

[Anonymous Coward]

pokes facebook

Re:WTF?

[sopssa]

Maybe CNN implies that Google searching should be more social and have a wall and status updates of what their friends have searched for. More social googling could also mean planning a trip together, searching for Linux information together, or even looking at porn together.

In other news

[jplopez]

Google introduces Gfarm.

Re:OK

[elrous0]

It must be a fair comparison. The Facebook press release said so.

Re:What do they do there?

[cryoman23]

really? i thought it was a bunch of people wanting help on a farm and becoming fans of things... well silly me for thinking that

Google needs to catch up...

[CFBMoo1]

The only thing I do on Facebook is throw cows at everyone on my friends list. Outside of that Facebook is kinda pointless to me. All these causes, games, god knows what else I find more annoying then useful. Still Superpoke is useful for tossing cows at people. When Google comes up with something that lets me do that then I'm ditching Facebook forever.

Re:WTF?

[Gulthek]

Actually, they are googling for facebook and getting hilariously confused with the result:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login.php [readwriteweb.com]

After that article went up dozens of people found it googling for "facebook login", and then proceeded to leave scathing comments about the "new" facebook design.

Re:WTF is this, Straw man 2.0?

[pikine]

Drop the anti-social networks, and you will have less unsigned int friends

I thought these social networks give you complex and irrational friends. I don't very much care about transcendental relationships. I'd rather like my friends be all natural, thank you very much.

Re:In other news

[Matt Perry]

Google introduces Gfarm.

Obviously it requires GNOME.

Steve Ballmer

[bhunachchicken]

throws a chair at Google, using SuperPoke!

Re:facebook

[Sinning]

Shouldn't this have been 'first poke!' ?

Yahoo

[Anonymous Coward]

Why doesn't anyone like me anymore?

Re:WTF?

[228e2]

#621

I am a Prince from Nigeria and Facebook has been captured and is hidden behind our impenetrable firewalls here.

If you send me a $10 Western Union money order to my address here in Lagos I can convince my family to release it.

Send it to me here at:
2 Walter Carrington Crescent, Victoria Island, Nigeria

Win of all wins =)