{"id":8535,"date":"2010-03-15T18:21:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T18:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/facebook_passes_google_in_us_traffic.html"},"modified":"2010-03-15T18:21:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T18:21:16","slug":"facebook-passes-google-in-us-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/facebook-passes-google-in-us-traffic.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Passes Google in US Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Chart courtesy of DigitalBeat and Hitwise US<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"420\" style=\"\" class=\"mt-image-none\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/facebook-surpasses-google-hitwise-031510.png\" alt=\"facebook-surpasses-google-hitwise-031510.png\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>It was bound to happen and many predicted this year would be the one where we see social media &#8211; especially Facebook take away the most popular site crown from Google. The social networking site did beat out Google by a miniscule percentage &#8211; 7.07% to 7.03% in the US according to Hitwise. It is worth pointing out that social gaming seems to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.venturebeat.com\/2010\/03\/15\/facebook-ousts-google-as-most-popular-u-s-site\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Venturebeat+%28VentureBeat%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">reason<\/a> for the rapid rise of Facebook traffic. Moreover, Comscore and Alexa still rank Google as a traffic leader. Still the trend above has got to worry people at Google, Yahoo and many media sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chart courtesy of DigitalBeat and Hitwise US It was bound to happen and many predicted this year would be the one where we see social media &#8211; especially Facebook take away the most popular site crown from Google. The social networking site did beat out Google by a miniscule percentage &#8211; 7.07% to 7.03% in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,168,181,172,163,206,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}