Post tagged "Google"
Facebook Passes Google As Most-Visited Website in US in Week Ending Mar 13, 2010
Hitwise reports that, for the week ending March 13, 2010, Facebook passed Google to become the most visited website for the week in the U.S. Facebook.com had previously reached the #1 ranking on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day, as well as the weekend of March 6th and 7th, but this is the first time that the site held most-visited status for a week.
The share of visits to Facebook.com increased 185% as compared to the same week in 2009, while visits to Google.com increased 9% during the same time frame. …more…
Facebook Drives 350x More Traffic to News/Media Sites than Google Reader
According to a ReadWriteWeb analysis of Hitwise numbers, Facebook drives 350 times as much traffic to other websites in the “news and media” category (3.5%) as Google Reader does (.01%).
However, Facebook, Google News (1.4%). and Google Reader togetheraccount for less than 5% of news sites’ total traffic. The #1, 2 and 3 drivers of traffic to news sites? Google, Yahoo and MSN.
I like what Google did and I like how they did it.
What they did.
What Google did, telling China where to get off, marks a geopolitical epoch: I can’t think of another example of a commercial entity risking it’s commercial interests to stand against tyranny. …more…
Sunday In the Sandbox with Facebook Connect
Having been told by Tonia that I would have to provide useful content for this site, rather than just pronouncing from on high, I spent the Sabbath playing around with Facebook Connect (website | Tonia’s post,) to see whether I could extract something useful from it. …more…
