Facebook overtaken Google in top visited website.

Google has changed the way how internet works. Google became very successful in almost all sphere of internet and they have emerged as a top player in gadget market place. Google dominates in search engine market and almost 70% of the internet users trust Google ahead of Yahoo and Microsoft Bing. Google is in the No.1 slot for top visited websites, but not now ! It got a new competitor and its social networking darling Facebook. For the last couple of weeks Facebook became the No.1 top visited website pushing Google in the second slot. Hitwise, the leading global online competitive intelligence service company who closely monitor the internet has given the last week’s top 20 website and Facebook became the Fist place.

Top 20 Websites

But Google still in the top place for the Total Search volumes and top Search website

Top Search Engine – Volume

Top Search Engines – Visits

And here is the details of top social networking sites, and Facebook on the top slot.

Top 20 Social Networking Websites

In fact Facebook has almost 52% netizens use Facebook with YouTube with 16% and My Space in the third slot. These ranking may change but Facebook is long way ahead of others. Recently I have found that a number of users specially from India who used to network in Google’s Orkut have shifted to Facebook. The reason being its popularity and the applications it support. At the time of this writing Facebook has more than 400 million active users, and 50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day!. This is such a huge volume and its expanding. Since the internet revolution is really taking shape in the Asian countries and the internet user base increases Facebook may remain in the top slot may years to come.