Facebook moves up to third place in the World Wide Web

This is undoubtedly the year of Facebook. While its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, was crowned in mid-December Man of the Year by Time magazine, is now its number of unique visitors that allows him to confirm his meteoric rise. With 648 million unique visitors in November, the online social network and climbs to the third-most visited websites in the world, according to research firm comScore World published by Les Echos Wednesday, December 29.


Facebook, founded in 2004 as a socialization tool for Harvard students, exceeded its rival search engine Yahoo, which had 630 million. The previous month, both sites still recorded a score of 633 million visitors each. Yahoo! remains number one in the U.S., ahead of Google, Microsoft and Facebook.

And Facebook is however far from the two giants of the Internet, Google and Microsoft, which occupy the first two steps of the podium, with respectively 970 million and 869 million unique visitors per month. The first search engine retains a long line in advance: the turnover of Google, ten times larger in number than the social network, is indeed estimated at some 22 billion dollars this year, or about 21 billion more than Facebook.
Depuis spring, the site of Mark Zuckerberg, the youngest billionaire in the world, however, multiplies the innovations that are close to the fiefs of Google's mail, with an address @ facebook. com provided to its users, could threaten the power of Gmail. And function "issues" is a search engine on a small scale.
In September, comScore had also been noted that people stayed longer than Facebook on Google sites. And in just eighteen months, the social network has registered in Tech News Buzz nearly 250 million additional visitors. What led some observers to conclude that Facebook and Google, who is twice her age, began to wage a covert war, especially in the field of recruitment: two hundred employees of Facebook, 10% of its workforce, are of former "Googlers".

That would be to stop the bleeding that Google has decided a general increase in salaries by 10%.

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