Facebook Attracting More Visitors Than Google.com 173
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.
Re:People still visit google.com? (Score:3, Informative)
And the answer page is on Google.com. They're talking about the whole TLD, not the home page.
Using the search bar is win-win with Google. They save on bandwidth/resources, and there's no ads on their home page anyway. And when it jumps you to Wikipedia, those are usually for instances where you're not shopping for something anyway.
Re:WTF? (Score:2, Informative)
Your browser probably has a quick search keyword feature, so instead of going to google "urban dictionary", you could type something like "slang [term]" or even "ud [term]" om your address bar
Re:WTF? (Score:2, Informative)
Uuuum, do you know that there is a keyword search built into Firefox (and Opera for that matter)
You can right-click on a input field of a form, and choose to create a keyword search. Enter the keyword, and off you go.
To search on urban dictionary, I do “ud myquery” for Youtube its “yt”, etc. That’s what it’s there for.
I even removed my search field, removed all buttons, and moved the URL field to the left of the menu. Which makes FF really slim. Nobody needs buttons anymore anyway. We have mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, and if we don’t know the function, there is a menu showing us everything there is.
Hell, my windows don’t even have buttons. It’s much more comfortable to just Win-Click anywhere on a window to move, resize or close it. ;)
Re:Interesting... (Score:3, Informative)
No one finds it funny that this milestone of the rise of social networking is that facebook surpassed google. Did they not read the next line where before google MySpace was the top site?
Social Site - Search Engine - Social Site