ComScore: Facebook’s Search Query Volume Grew by 13% in January
While still distant behind search engine leader Google, Facebook grew its US search traffic by 13% in January, according to a recent report from comScore that examined search activity on leading web sites. In December, the analytics firm tracked 351 million search queries on Facebook in the US, and in January it counted 395 million.
Overall, Google still had 65.4% of the US market last month with more than 14 billion queries, and rivals like Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL and Ask had most of the rest. Their portions stayed pretty flat overall, and many other sites saw query volumes fall, so the fact that Facebook saw some growth is interesting, especially considering other search-related moves it has been making.
A redesign that Facebook introduced this month makes the search box more prominent than before, expanding in size and moving from the top right-hand side of the site to the top middle. Facebook also recently announced an expansion of its partnership with Microsoft’s search engine, Bing. While the engine has already been displaying web search results for Facebook searches, it will soon begin incorporating more data from Facebook users in order to deliver better results to them; Microsoft will continue running search ads in these results.
February 16th, 2010 at 6:53 am
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February 16th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
[...] ComScore: Facebook’s Search Query Volume Grew by 13% in January While still distant behind search engine leader Google, Facebook grew its US search traffic by 13% in January, according to a recent report from comScore that examined search activity on leading web sites. In December, the analytics firm tracked 351 million search queries on Facebook in the US, and in January it counted 395 million. (Weiterlesen auf InsideFacebook.com) [...]
February 17th, 2010 at 4:51 am
Well i really like the way we can search in facebook because facebook has better options of searching. You can search status updates, people fan page and many more things individually.
February 17th, 2010 at 8:00 am
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February 21st, 2010 at 5:26 am
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March 14th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
[...] by 10% last month with 436 million U.S. searches last month, according to comScore. We previously reported that Facebook’s search traffic grew 13% in January with 395 million searches, up from 351 million [...]
June 6th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
(10% last months with 436 millions) U.S. searches last month, according to that article. I hope many American Users used the facebook in our daily life.