Facebook now the most popular site in America

By George Wong on 12/30/2010, filed in Home > Web

Looks like Google is no longer the most popular site in America. That title has been stripped away by Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking website. According to some stats published by Hitwise, Facebook now accounts for 8.93% of all site visits in the country between January and November. That is a lot of hits. Google on the other hand was only 7.19% of all page visits. But that was the Google.com domain. If you took into account all of their properties such as Gmail, Google Maps, etc, Google would account for 9.85% of all the sites visited across the entire internet. Facebook isn’t there yet, but they’ll probably reach there one day. How many of you have contributed to this statistic? If you have, head over to our Ubergizmo Facebook page and Like it!

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Facebook: Facebook is a Social Networking service launched in 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. At first, only students from Harvard could join the service, but over time more users were allowed to join. Today, Facebook remains the leader in social networking, but most importantly, it is the top online identity provider as the overwhelming majority of Facebook users have registered using their real identities.If you have a Facebook account, you can use Ubergizmo's Social Reader.

Google: Google is an Internet Search company with profits mainly derived from its AdWords advertising program. Google is also known for other high-profile web-related products such as Chrome, GMail, Google Docs or Google Map, and it has also made a very successful entry into the mobile handset market with its Android mobile operating system. The company was created in 1998 and went public in 2004. Google is one of the most visited site in the world.

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