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Facebook Surpasses Google For Users' Online Time

Posted by Soulskill on from the guess-they-should-make-their-searches-take-longer dept.

crimeandpunishment writes "When it comes to our time online, socializing beats searching. According to new data from researchers at comScore Inc., Facebook has moved ahead of Google for the first time in Web users' minutes. In August, people spent more than 41 million minutes on Facebook, compared to just under 40 million for all of Google's sites combined. Yahoo came in third, with 37.7 million minutes."

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  1. Yahoo 3rd??? by A.+B3ttik · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who the #%&$ still uses yahoo?

  2. Is that an achievement for Google or Facebook? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Google prides itself on wasting less of our time, while Facebook prides itself on wasting more of it.

    I wanna see how many ads per minute each service gets from their users, and how much resources a minute is worth on both of them.

    Then this milestone might even mean something. By itself, it doesn't.

  3. Re:Really? by jgagnon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is for all of Google's services, not just their search home page. I keep a browser window with Gmail open nearly all day, every day.

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