Yesterday we reported the news stating that Facebook, for a whole week has surpassed Google in terms of page views even in the U.S.Facebook has managed to overcome Google in United states. In practice, the Americans prefer the internet social networking search engine? Google will give up Its leadership? Nonetheless, the expansion of Facebook (+185% last year) might eventually bring some problem to Google, certainly not now. For example, Microsoft has a market share of a few percent of the popular social network, but so was enough to make the home page of Facebook head to Bing as the default search engine. Bing is far from Google in terms of share, but is tied hand in glove to Facebook.
Although the turnover of both worlds, at least for now, lets not raise concerns because Google would stand at 24 billion dollars for the search engine against 1.5 billion dollars for the social network, but the latter has a trend of exponential growth.
According to the latest estimates revealed by Hitwise, in the week between 7 and 13 March, Facebook has already registered in the United States is a higher than that of the search engine Google. The social network has already exceeded the world’s first search engine on another occasion, in particular December 31, 2009, but is the first time that Facebook is able to bypass Google for a whole week.Now, look closely at the statistics provided by hitwise.com, we learn some details is not insignificant: only two home facebook.com and google.com were taken into consideration and this figure does not report the true value of numbers field.
Google is not only a search engine, is also one of the most used email services in the world with GMail, but there are side platforms and services such as YouTube and Picasa, any fact that taken as a whole to bring the world of Google ‘11, 3%, followed by Yahoo! with 10.9%, we are far from 7.07% of Facebook.
As we mentioned yesterday, the Web is becoming social and Google should take this into account, Buzz is not enough to keep pace.