Facebook overtakes Google in US

Published: 11:37PM Thursday March 18, 2010 Source: ONE News

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Social networking website Facebook has overtaken Google to become the most-visited website in the US last week.

Facebook was responsible for 7.07% of online traffic in the country, compared with the total of 7.03% accounted for by the search giant.

Facebook had previously taken the top spot on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in 2009, and New Year's Day 2010, but its recent performance marked the first time it had retained this position for an entire week.

Google has been in first place since 2007, when it overtook MySpace, which has been in decline ever since.

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