Facebook More Popular Than Google? Let the Ad Wars Begin

According to the latest Hitwise analysis, Google's lost its crown as the most-visited Web site in the U.S. last week. The new king of Web site traffic is, of course, Facebook. In the future, technohistorians may marvel at this event.
During the Winter holidays there were a few momentary spikes in traffic which placed Facebook on the top, but if you check out the graph of the long term trend shown above, you can see Facebook's meteoric rise is now on target to meet or beat Google. And if that curve continues on its trajectory, which it may well do for a while (its market share is 185% up over the same week in 2009, for example,) Facebook will become number one by a huge margin, versus the tiddly little 0.04% separation it currently has above Google's 7.03% share of average weekly market share.
Over at Inside Facebook they're pondering if the early-February revamp of Facebook's user landing page is partly responsible, since it emphasizes Top Stories over a real-time stream--which is something users may prefer. But if you peep at Facebook's market share curve, it's not a smooth linear climb, and the gentle oscillations in increasing market share are more probably representative of slight changes in Facebook's popularity or appearance in broadcast media. Besides, it seems that Facebook continues to attract more members, and sees those members interacting more with the site, pretty much no matter what it does to redesign its services.

 

Other sources: http://weblogs.hitwise.com/heather-dougherty/2010/03/facebook_reaches_top_ran...

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How Search Works

Thanks to @CharlieKalech

 

More infos here http://www.google.com/howgoogleworks/

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Why Microsoft: Microsoft compared to Google - Total Value Overview

Animated overview of how Microsoft's solutions compare to Google's approach. Microsoft delivers the best solution for your users and the best options for IT leading to the best total value.

Learn more at www.WhyMicrosoft.com/google

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TEDxSoMa - Damon Horowitz

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Google Vs Apple, the same but different

Read the full story here: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_04/b4164028483414.htm?chan=magazine+channel_top+stories

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Nexus One: "Web meets phone"

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The Google Toilet: SuperNews!

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Birthday of Sir Isaac Newton on Google

With a nice animation on the logo :)
More about Isaac Newton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton

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World AIDS Day 2009

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World AIDS Day 2009

To raise awareness and support the 33 million people living with HIV/AIDS, find ways that you can learn, act, and give.

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UNAIDS: Uniting the world against HIV/AIDS. All For Good: Volunteer for HIV/AIDS related activites in your area. The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria: Make a donation through the United Nations Foundation.

 

 

 

     

IAS: Check the latest developments in HIV/AIDS. ONE Campaign: Fight preventable diseases. (RED): Give (RED), Save Lives. Watch the Lazarus Effect.

 

 

 

     

LIVING PROOF: Investments in global health are working. Act Against AIDS: Be part of the solution. Watch Alicia Keys' benefit concert for World AIDS Day live on YouTube.

 

 

 

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[World AIDS Day 2009] - To raise awareness and support the 33 million people living with HIV/AIDS, find ways that you can learn, act, and give. http://www.google.org/world-aids-day-2009.html

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Google Announces Automatic Captions on YouTube

In Washington, DC, Google announced the preliminary roll-out of automatic captioning in YouTube, an innovation that takes advantage of our speech recognition technology to turn the spoken word into text captions. We also announced that if you have a transcript of your video, you can upload it to YouTube and we'll time the captions for you.

Over 60 accessibility leaders from the National Association of the Deaf, Gallaudet University, AAPD and other organizations joined us to be the first to learn about these new features.

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