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Facebook crosses
another milestone! Now it is the most visited website in the US, beating the
long time number one, google.com! The social networking giant overtook Google's
search engine page this week to become the most visited website in the U.S.
According
to research from web statistics firm Hitwise, Facebook edged google out by .4
percent, after almost tripling in unique visitors from the past year. Even though
this is a very small margin, it is a great achievement for facebook, as it is
rapidly grasping popularity in other countries.
By comparison,
visits to search engine home Google.com increased only nine per cent in the
same time - although the tracker does not include Google property sites such as
the popular Gmail email service, YouTube and Google Maps.
Taken
together, Facebook.com and Google.com amounted to 14 per cent of the entire US
internet visits last week, Dougherty said.
Google has
been positioning challenges in recent months to Facebook and the micro-blogging
site Twitter by adding the social-networking feature Buzz to its Gmail service.
Facebook
boasts some 400 million users while Gmail had 176 million unique visitors in
December, according to tracking firm comScore.
Facebook,
which first launched to the public in 2004, has become the de facto standard
for social networking and has added music and games and enhanced content
features. Google is also running social networking services similar to Facebook
called ‘Orkut’, but it could not get much popularity except countries like
Brazil and India.
Recently, Google
has taken steps to counter Facebook by offering a social networking feature for
their Gmail service called Buzz that lets users share media such as videos and
photos. Google has indicated that they are considering making the Buzz feature
a stand-alone service.
