Much of what net prophets preached about Facebook has now come to pass. Facebook long ago has passed archrival MySpace on global page view and user base. MySpace’s stronghold, the US market is also under siege. Facebook is getting stronger in US, its number continue to climb. But the most surprising and shocking of all is Facebook is gaining ground on Google in time spent on the web. According to a recent comScore report Facebook is the sixth most trafficked site in the US, it got 65 billion page views per month. Users spend an average of 20 minutes on the site daily, there are now 2.6 billion minutes spent on Facebook each day according to a recent statistics on user growth and engagement. Facebook has now reached 140 million active users and it’s expected to hit 200 million by the year 2009. About 70 percent of Facebook growth is happening outside the US according to Mike Arrington, there are now 52,000 apps on Facebook built by 660,000 third party developers, that’s a terrible platform. Users engagement were also impressive, more than 13 million users update their profile at least one each day. Up to 700 million photos have been uploaded to the site each month and more than 4 million videos uploaded each month, that’s huge and awesome. According to comScore users spent 33.9 billion minutes on Facebook compared to 41.6 billion minutes on Google, comScore got another report on November for the US, its estimates that users spent 8 billion minutes on Facebook compared to Google’s 8.5 billion minutes, that’s pretty close! The US gap between Google and Facebook is getting closer. Google relied mostly on its core technology - online search to get traffic while at Facebook it’s about platform and applications. This sounds trouble for Google; the Search Company has a business plan that depends on the web being used by as many people as possible. Google has relied on an open internet to make its entire business. Facebook is a threat to that business users tend to stay within their network and communicate among themselves they’re not using Google. Indeed they’re using Facebook application such as Slide’s SuperPoke or iLike.

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http://netcrawl.blogspot.com
http://ihaveFacebook.blogspot.com