Facebook Surpasses Google For Users' Online Time 159
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from the guess-they-should-make-their-searches-take-longer dept.
from the guess-they-should-make-their-searches-take-longer dept.
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 3rd??? (Score:5, Insightful)
Is that an achievement for Google or Facebook? (Score:4, Insightful)
Google prides itself on wasting less of our time, while Facebook prides itself on wasting more of it.
I wanna see how many ads per minute each service gets from their users, and how much resources a minute is worth on both of them.
Then this milestone might even mean something. By itself, it doesn't.
Re:Really? (Score:3, Insightful)
I haven't RTFA but maybe Google includes Gmail, Youtube, Blogspot, etc?
Re:Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
This is for all of Google's services, not just their search home page. I keep a browser window with Gmail open nearly all day, every day.
"slacking off" would be the correct term (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Really? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Facebook? Try Farmville. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Statistically significant (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't use facebook, but I'd imagine that people who do spend more time there per visit than the five seconds it takes to google to somewhere. Plus, most people just use the search bar on their browser -- which is usually Google. Does that count as a visit?
Re:Right, because Google is *instant* now. (Score:3, Insightful)
But you could get a tattoo on your forehead reading "This Space for Rent"... :p
Re:Really? (Score:4, Insightful)
FTS: all of Google's sites combined.
When you consider that Google offers so many other things - calendar, email, etc. (which arguably, Facebook can also provide in its own way) besides search, I guess it means you spend more time on a Google site. I wonder if Youtube was also considered in Google's minutes, but I didn't RTA.
plus, who uses google to procrastinate? I'd think 90% of people would choose facebook over google if they had to go somewhere to procrastinate. That probably counts for the majority of facebook's time.
Apples and Oranges (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Statistically significant (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't doubt that Facebook use is growing faster than Google use
Well, duh. I don't think Google use can grow any faster.
There is a fundamental difference between Google and Facebook: you don't use Google to use Google, you use it to get somewhere else. You use Facebook to be on Facebook. In fact, we love Google precisely because they don't waste our time.