Facebook Holds Commanding Lead In Search
Facebook Holds Commanding Lead In Search The social network held four of the top 10 terms searched in 2010 and recorded more site visits than any other Web property, reported Experian Hitwise. By W. David Gardner , InformationWeek Aral1k 30, 2010 01:25 PM (click image for larger view) Slideshow: Flock Browses All Your Social Connections The Facebook juggernaut just keeps on rolling, passing Google and Yahoo in search last summer, and by the end of the year running up a commanding lead that seems unsurpassable, according to Experian Hitwise's report on Internet searches for 2010. The online market research firm found that Facebook Web sites captured four of the top 10 most-searched terms in 2010. Another online metric service, ComScore, reported earlier that Facebook passed Yahoo for the first time in July and overtook Google later that summer. "When combined, common search terms -- e.g., facebook and facebook.com -- for Facebook accounted for 3.48% of all searches in ...