Facebook vs. Google
First off if you are up to date on the latest news you will find this blog quite informative and interesting. Facebook and Google are competing to be at the top and at the moment Facebook seems to be winning this fight in most countries.
Here’s a little background on these two sites less than a year ago
Facebook:
| Website: | facebook.com |
| Location: | Palo Alto, California, United States |
| Founded: | February 1, 2004 |
| Funding: | $716M |
Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 400 million users.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard…
Google:
| Website: | google.com | ||
| Location: | Mountain View, California, United States | ||
| Founded: | September 7,1998 | ||
| IPO: | August 19, 2004 |
Google primarily provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world’s information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of tools and platforms including its more popular…
Facebook have surpassed MySpace in the amount of visitors and time they spend on the site a while ago, and now it seems like Facebook have taken aim at Google, and they are gaining ground quickly.
Here is some statistics released by Facebook on December 2008
User Engagement
* Average user has 100 friends on the site
* 2.6 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (Globally)
* More than 13 million users update their statuses at least once each day
Applications
* More than 700 million photos uploaded to the site each month
* More than 4 million videos uploaded each month
* More than 15 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each month
How does this level of engagement compare to other large sites?
Minutes spent on the site are the way comScore measures user engagement. And according to the global data released by comScore for October 2008 users spent:
- 33.9 billion minutes on Facebook that’s about 19% increase from September.
- Google on the other hand kept users busy for only 41.6 Billion minutes which is up by only 3.6%
- MySpace is down with 2.5%
- And at the top of the list winning by a HUGE margin is Yahoo with its users spending an impressive 120 Billion minutes on site.
On the Visitors side Google Still has almost four times more visitors than Facebook.
In the U.S. Google and Facebook is much closer to each other in terms of time spent on each website. In November 2008 comScore has estimated that people spent about 8 Billion minutes on Facebook and Google kept people busy for an estimate of 8.5 Billion minutes while MySpace soared above the rest with an impressive 16.4 Billion minutes spend on site and they had 77.5 Million visitors compared to the 50.5 Million visitors of Facebook.
Information provided by CrunchBase
Today
The growth of Facebook has been massive over the last couple of years, however I must admit I never saw this next news coming, Facebook is now the most visited site in the US.
Prior to this Google held the number one spot, however now Facebook is responsible for 7.07 percent of web visits in the US, whereas Google are now only responsible for approximately 7.03 percent of US web visits.
If you compare last week’s Facebook visits against the same week last year there has been an increase in page visits of a massive 185 per cent, at one point Facebook’s closest competitor was MySpace, how times have changed.
What do you think Google can do to retake their number one spot?
Source: OnlineSocialMedia
