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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. Re:Yahoo 3rd??? by JeffSpudrinski · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yahoo resells itself as a web-based email host for other online services and schools.

    I was recently FORCED to start using Yahoo (which I despise) for web-based email through my ISP.

    My ISP did have a web-based email host, which was ad-free and a nice clean interface. They then inexplicably forced all their customers to start using Yahoo for their email (leaving users no choice) with all the stupid headlines, chat programs, ads, pop ups, and all the useless crap that Yahoo makes money off of.

    I called my ISP to complain and their take on it was "if you don't like it, use someone else".

    Reminds me of the old AT&T days...wait...what's my ISP again?

    Just my $0.02.

    -JJS