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Leveraging Ideas: Facebook: The Most Searched for Term on the Web?

  • Dmitry · 3 months ago
    People don't "search" for Facebook, they just type it into their Google bar to get to it.
  • Sam Huleatt · 3 months ago
    @dmitry It's a good hypothesis except that Google is a more frequented
    site than Facebook, so by your logic I would think that Google would
    even have more 'queries' than Facebook -- yet that's not the case:
    http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=google...

    So I stand by that people are actually searching for Facebook
  • x · 3 months ago
    But if you're on google.. you dont have to search to get to google... :P
  • Sam Huleatt · 3 months ago
    haha...true!

    Okay, but find me another site/keyword that is even close to Facebook.
    There is more going on here than typing in http://facebook.com...for
    example, doing that in Explorer doesn't default to Google Search
  • Dmitry · 3 months ago
    Sure, but people still do it, especially in the integrated search bars. Other services like myspace, yahoo, bing, etc. are getting low volumes by comparison. I wonder what the % split is between people looking to sign up find/sign up facebook and people who just type it in to get there.
  • Dmitry · 3 months ago
    Hmm.. you're right, there does seem to be a very large discrepancy, especially the growth rate. Still a ton of searches for "google", but nothing as large as facebook.
  • Sam Huleatt · 3 months ago
    it's definitely interesting...the discrepancy does seem 'too'
    large...i'll keep digging
  • Sam Huleatt · 3 months ago
    it's definitely interesting...the discrepancy does seem 'too'
    large...i'll keep digging
  • Carl · 3 months ago
    Could the audience of facebook (much broader reach, less tech savy, infrequent web-users) vs. twitter (more media literate, experience online users) contribute towards this?
  • perilla · 3 months ago
    Also consider that the term "Facebook" is not searched alone.."facebook games," "dan brown on facebook" etc., i.e. people look for stuff on facebook and that might be why it gets all the convergence of different queries otherwise not that much related to facebook itself..

    especially the gaming part is a big deal..
  • r4dscard · 3 months ago
    Face book is awesome, I am using it from last 2 years. its much popular i can easily find out ma school friends.

    r4 Software
  • Carlo · 3 months ago
    You know, I never thought about it. But I checked for myself and it looks like you're right.
  • yournetbiz_mentor · 2 months ago
    Face book is growing. Alot of members in my family, was scared of the Internet. Thinking any profile was almost evil. Now everyone from my grandmother 80, to my mom, aunts, and sister now have facebook. I couldn't convince them the Internet wasn't evil, only Facebook could do that.
  • ralphgraham · 2 months ago
    Social Networking has become very popular in last few years. Twitter has been amongst the popular once.
    By:
    Reuben Watson
    Marketing Associate
    http://www.recoverybull.com
  • facebookfanpages · 1 month ago
    Facebook is the social network site. If you say that people use facebook for searching it new for me. i will must see it. thx for the new infomation