Friday, December 31, 2010

Facebook supasses Google as most viewed internet site in USA

In year 2010 it seems facebook has taken over google as most viewed site oin internet . As per one of the survey conducted by firm Experian


The social networking site also claimed the top search term of the year, with variations on its name filling four of the 10 most popular searches, the survey found.
The study found that Facebook accounted for 8.93 % of all US website visits in the year, ahead of Google.com's 7.19 per cent and third-placed Yahoo Mail with 3.85 percent.However if all Google's various properties are taken into account, the web search giant did overtake Facebook with 9.85 per cent of all website visits.Microsoft's msn.com and bing.com also made it into the list of top ten websites, as did myspace.com.

In all, Facebook searches accounted for 3.48 per cent of all web searches in the US in 2010, a 207-per cent increase over 2009.

Other terms in the top searches included "youtube", "craigslist", "myspace", "ebay" and "yahoo".