http://leveragingideas.disqus.com/Ideation on social media, venture capital and startups.enThu, 29 Oct 2009 05:55:00 -0000http://www.leveragingideas.com/2009/09/20/facebook-the-most-searched-for-term-on-the-web/#comment-21251679<p>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</p>Cheap Logo DesignThu, 29 Oct 2009 05:55:00 -0000http://www.leveragingideas.com/2009/09/20/facebook-the-most-searched-for-term-on-the-web/#comment-17765215<p>Social Networking has become very popular in last few years. Twitter has been amongst the popular once.<br>By:<br>Reuben Watson<br>Marketing Associate<br><a href="http://www.recoverybull.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.recoverybull.com">http://www.recoverybull.com</a></p>ralphgrahamTue, 29 Sep 2009 07:22:33 -0000http://www.leveragingideas.com/2009/09/20/facebook-the-most-searched-for-term-on-the-web/#comment-17419020<p>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.<br></p>yournetbiz_mentorSat, 26 Sep 2009 07:10:08 -0000http://www.leveragingideas.com/2009/09/20/facebook-the-most-searched-for-term-on-the-web/#comment-17042432<p>You know, I never thought about it. But I checked for myself and it looks like you're right. </p>CeeMon, 21 Sep 2009 13:02:33 -0000http://www.leveragingideas.com/2009/09/20/facebook-the-most-searched-for-term-on-the-web/#comment-17029984<p>Face book is awesome, I am using it from last 2 years. its much popular i can easily find out ma school friends.</p><p><a href="http://www.r4-ds-card.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.r4-ds-card.com"> r4 Software</a></p>r4dscardMon, 21 Sep 2009 05:52:42 -0000http://www.leveragingideas.com/2009/09/20/facebook-the-most-searched-for-term-on-the-web/#comment-17029564<p>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..</p><p>especially the gaming part is a big deal..</p>HaykMon, 21 Sep 2009 05:31:41 -0000http://www.leveragingideas.com/2009/09/20/facebook-the-most-searched-for-term-on-the-web/#comment-17028614<p>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?</p>CarlMon, 21 Sep 2009 04:48:45 -0000http://www.leveragingideas.com/2009/09/20/facebook-the-most-searched-for-term-on-the-web/#comment-17000219<p>it's definitely interesting...the discrepancy does seem 'too'<br>large...i'll keep digging</p>Sam HuleattSun, 20 Sep 2009 20:21:02 -0000http://www.leveragingideas.com/2009/09/20/facebook-the-most-searched-for-term-on-the-web/#comment-17000194<p>it's definitely interesting...the discrepancy does seem 'too'<br>large...i'll keep digging</p>Sam HuleattSun, 20 Sep 2009 20:20:05 -0000http://www.leveragingideas.com/2009/09/20/facebook-the-most-searched-for-term-on-the-web/#comment-17000175<p>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.</p>DmitrySun, 20 Sep 2009 20:19:17 -0000http://www.leveragingideas.com/2009/09/20/facebook-the-most-searched-for-term-on-the-web/#comment-17000092<p>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.</p>DmitrySun, 20 Sep 2009 20:15:58 -0000http://www.leveragingideas.com/2009/09/20/facebook-the-most-searched-for-term-on-the-web/#comment-17000060<p>haha...true!</p><p>Okay, but find me another site/keyword that is even close to Facebook.<br>There is more going on here than typing in <a href="http://facebook.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://facebook.com">http://facebook.com</a>...for<br>example, doing that in Explorer doesn't default to Google Search</p>Sam HuleattSun, 20 Sep 2009 20:14:02 -0000http://www.leveragingideas.com/2009/09/20/facebook-the-most-searched-for-term-on-the-web/#comment-16999943<p>But if you're on google.. you dont have to search to get to google... :P</p>xSun, 20 Sep 2009 20:08:53 -0000http://www.leveragingideas.com/2009/09/20/facebook-the-most-searched-for-term-on-the-web/#comment-16998970<p>@dmitry It's a good hypothesis except that Google is a more frequented<br>site than Facebook, so by your logic I would think that Google would<br>even have more 'queries' than Facebook -- yet that's not the case:<br><a href="http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=google%2C%20facebook&amp;cmpt=q" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=google%2C%20facebook&amp;cmpt=q">http://www.google.com/insig...</a></p><p>So I stand by that people are actually searching for Facebook</p>Sam HuleattSun, 20 Sep 2009 19:29:04 -0000http://www.leveragingideas.com/2009/09/20/facebook-the-most-searched-for-term-on-the-web/#comment-16998834<p>People don't "search" for Facebook, they just type it into their Google bar to get to it.</p>DmitrySun, 20 Sep 2009 19:22:52 -0000