Facebook has become the most-visited site in the US after beating former title holder Google.Facebook is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Since September 2006, anyone over the age of 13 with a valid e-mail address (and not residing in one of the countries where it is banned) can become a Facebook user. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselvesThe popular social networking page toppled the search giant after accounting for 7.07 per cent of all US web traffic compared to Google’s 7.03 per cent, web analysts Hitwise revealed.
“It’s definitely a big moment for Facebook, even though they beat by a small margin,” News.com.au quoted Hitwise’s Matt Tatham as telling CNN.
He added, “People want information from friends they trust, versus the anonymity of a search engine.” The research did not include other Google services such as Gmail and YouTube.
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