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Peak Facebook
- sudonim 15y agoIm not sure that a graph showing the number of google searches for facebook indicates anything. When's the last time you googled facebook to log in to your account?
- Shenglong 15y agoRight. On the flip side, if this data is based as the other article a while ago, on facebook's advertiser's data, then it's not including mobile views.
- yuvadam 15y agoI'm sure it indicates something. Google searches are usually somewhat correlated to real-life trends.
- farlington 15y agoI'll bet at least some of the difference in facebook search traffic is offset by the rise in popularity of mobile devices. Most people with mobile devices have an app to go to and would be less likely to search 'facebook'.
- Hisoka 15y agoYou'll be surprised at how many non-hackers google for it. People even google for "ebay.com", and domain names rather than typing it in the browser URL bar.
- ordinary 15y agoAnd don't forget that Firefox sends address bar input that doesn't look like an URL to Google's I Feel Lucky search. That's why a significant part of the Mozilla Foundation's income comes from Google.
- Steko 15y agoI think you'd be surprised at how many hackers enjoy the conveniences of Google search for a known url.
- jashmenn 15y agoAll the time. Well, not me personally, but many of the "normals" I know Google for Facebook rather than typing it in the URL bar. Remember the ReadWriteWeb "Facebook Login" event last February? [1] [2] [1] http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/02/11/facebook-login http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/02/11/facebook-login [2] http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_google_failed_internet_meme.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_google_failed_inter...
- esrauch 15y agoThe demographic that googles "facebook" can easily have different behavior patterns from people who type in the URL.
- civilian 15y agoThis is a fun graph too: http://www.google.com/trends?q=facebook%2C+myspace&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 http://www.google.com/trends?q=facebook%2C+myspace&ctab=...
- encoderer 15y agoIn a few minutes of searching, I wasn't able to find a single search term that was more popular that Facebook. I mean, there has to be something. Doesn't there?
- yahelc 15y agoClosest I can find is YouTube, which was overtaken by Facebook in late 2008. http://trends.google.com/trends?q=facebook%2Cyoutube&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 http://trends.google.com/trends?q=facebook%2Cyoutube&cta... EDIT: "the" was ahead of Facebook as almost-mid 2009.
- mlinsey 15y agoDoubtful. The last time I was privy to accurate data on the top search terms at a major search engine was almost five years ago, but at that time the most searched-for terms were all names of popular websites. Lots of people use search boxes as URL bars. With Facebook the most popular site in the world, it doesn't surprise me that it would be the top search query.
- a3_nm 15y agoIn terms of traffic, Google is the most popular site in the world, not Facebook. http://www.alexa.com/topsites http://www.alexa.com/topsites
- d0ne 15y agoThis probably has to do with the fact that 'facebook' is the same in every language. Meaning that other popular items that may receive higher search volume are split among many different actual queries. The closest I could find to 'facebook' was 'youtube' which falls into the same category and comes in at just under half.
- timcederman 15y agoI'm not sure why people always link to search terms when they want the site traffic which is also available on Google Trends. http://trends.google.com/websites?q=facebook.com&sa=N http://trends.google.com/websites?q=facebook.com&sa=N
- d0ne 15y agoAnyone else find it interesting that you can't get google.com stats? http://trends.google.com/websites?q=google.com&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 http://trends.google.com/websites?q=google.com&geo=all&#...
- wave 15y agoIt is because people don't search for "google.com" while they are already on google.com. Google Trends only contains data for large search volume.
- CWIZO 15y agoI've seen many people type "google" or "google.com" into google's search bar, while on google.com. Then they typed "facebook.com" into the search bar or something silly like that ...
- dstein 15y agoI can't be the only person who has mindlessly done that before.
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- MaxGabriel 15y agoI don't know where I heard this, but I was told that its very common for inexperienced internet users (of which there are many) to search for google in the search bar built into their browser, then click google to search for there.
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- qq66 15y agoOf course we're at Peak Facebook. Practically every internet user in the country is on Facebook, and a good fraction of the world.
- supersillyus 15y agoI think what we're seeing here is people no longer search for Facebook on Google; they have started going straight to Facebook, with no Google in between. For lots of folks, Facebook is the internet.
- momotomo 15y agoExactly this. As hard as I try to be pro-privacy and anti facebook, it's on ever device I own and bookmarked into the very muscle memory of my hands. Where I used to log onto IRC to see what was happening after work, now it's FB instead.
- finisterre 15y agoA few months ago Facebook started aggressively suggesting users make it their homepage. Perhaps this is evidence that campaign worked.
- __rkaup__ 15y agoOh, it was aggressive. The only options that were available when the dialog showed up for me, was to either oblige, or to "Skip".
- misuse-permit 15y agoAre you telling me I get hit with aggressive ads every time I login to my bank account? :(
- dholowiski 15y agoHowever, for lots of people the Google search box IS the address bar - this is true in both IE and Chrome.
- hugh3 15y agoI don't know about IE, but in Chrome you'd have to work at it to actually search for "facebook" rather than going to facebook.com. Try it. Type "facebook". Heck, on most folks' machines you can just type "f". It'll auto-complete the URL. If you want to actually google for "facebook" you'll have to type "facebook " with a space.
- seles 15y agoThat is just how much people search for it. Here is traffic: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/facebook.com# http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/facebook.com#
- yakto 15y agoLooks like Facebook was similarly flat last May - Aug (2010) - this might just be a seasonal thing.
- epistasis 15y agoCould be a college student effect, like there used to be on Usenet. It could be that a not-insignificant percentage of Facebook activity is during class on laptops.
- tybris 15y agoIf half the world uses your product, at some point you'll stop growing...
- wildwood 15y agoPeak Facebook for Turkey, maybe. The US-only link at http://www.google.com/trends?q=facebook&ctab=0&geo=us&date=all&sort=0 http://www.google.com/trends?q=facebook&ctab=0&geo=u... still seems like it's growing. Actually, looking at the top five countries in the geo breakdown, Facebook is dropping in a lot of places in the world. Not sure what's going on there.
- code_duck 15y agoComparing the US and worldwide graphs, they appear quite similar to me. The world graph has a strong rise mid-2010, where it raises above the US line for the first time. Then, they both level out with some jig-jogs shortly before the start of 2011.
- zyfo 15y agoIf that's Peak Facebook then Peak Oil occurred in 2010: http://www.google.com/trends?q=oil http://www.google.com/trends?q=oil
- necenzurat 15y agoI've always hated facebook
- hootmon 15y agoWhere is that sharp pointed object when you need it?