According to Hitwise, an NYC-based tracking firm, Facebook soaked up 7.07 percent of all US Internet activity for the week ending March 13. By comparison, Google registered 7.03 percent of the market. Hitwise analyst Heather Dougherty wrote in a blog post today that Facebook had previously topped Google on a handful of prior occasions, including last Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.
The news is obviously good for Facebook, which has seen its market share increase 185 percent since the same time last year. No longer is Facebook a simple social network. Instead, it has positioned itself as a major online hub - and it poses some legitimate challenges to Google's dominance. Facebook, for instance, has made great strides in real-time search, in some ways besting similar efforts from Google.
Still, as Sam Gustin at Daily Finance points out, Facebook isn't likely to snuff out Google anytime soon, no matter how much Facebook traffic soars.
"Of course, it's important to put these traffic numbers and charts into context," Gustin writes. "Google is a giant, $130 billion public company with a fantastically profitable business model that churns out $23 billion in annual sales. Facebook, though huge, is still a start-up in search of a sustainable business model that can justify its current valuation, which is estimated to be anywhere between $8 billion and $15 billion."
When Facebook first appeared on Bill 'gatekeeper' Gates world-wide net to capture the egos of previously insignificant egos, I thought what a novel idea, until I discovered this:
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So now I stopped calling it Facebook, instead, I refer to it now as Facebutt.
Go back to the riverside, toss a few stones into the water, take a few deep breaths of some fresh air, walk along the river bank and enjoy your existence. Turn off Facebutt, you don't need it.
This one psycho I know ditched his wife after she ended up in the hospital almost getting killed when she was hit by a car. He picked up a girl fifteen years younger than him, promised her the world, seduced her into believing him. he is now penniless, no friends, and a complete self-destructive wreck. Yet, he gets on Facebook, I mean, Facebutt, and tells all his 'friends' how profound a thinker he is and how much compassion he has for people, mean while, his wife is still in rehabilitation, partially handicapped and in constant pain, but not only all that, she was emotionally devastated by being dumped after twenty years of marriage attempting suicide before I helped her through this nightmare.
If I ever see the guy on the streets it would be such a joy to see him get nailed by a speeding car, look for it on Facebutt, where your ego too can be somebody. One girl I know, sort of collects 'friends' on Facebook like a hobby, she's up to 96 'friends' now, imagine keeping track of 96 friends all over the world, I mean, wtf? I think it's a pathological sickness thanks to Facebutt.