Facebook Surpasses Google For Users' Online Time

crimeandpunishment writes "When it comes to our time online, socializing beats searching. According to new data from researchers at comScore Inc., Facebook has moved ahead of Google for the first time in Web users' minutes. In August, people spent more than 41 million minutes on Facebook, compared to just under 40 million for all of Google's sites combined. Yahoo came in third, with 37.7 million minutes."

Yahoo?

[swanzilla]

I am completely surprised by Yahoo's stats. Either user-minutes is a garbage metric, or I am using the internets incorrectly.

Re:Yahoo 3rd???

[Cochonou]

Maybe you have heard about this site called flickr [flickr.com] ?

Re:Yahoo 3rd???

[Mongoose Disciple]

Who the #%&$ still uses yahoo?

For search, probably not a lot of people.

On the other hand, one of my fantasy football leagues is on Yahoo, and Yahoo Answers is pretty solid.

Re:Really?

[IAmGarethAdams]

while Facebook chat isn't.

Really? Facebook chat is Jabber-based so I find it much easier to use it in Adium (Gaim) than through the shocking web interface

Re:Really?

[Anonymous Coward]

I just did that, and got a wall of chubby ging'ers. Needless to say, I didn't stay long.