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Facebook has surpassed Google.com (just visits, just USA)

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Google's goal: 1 Query => 1 visit

Facebook's goal: 1 visit => 1000 page views

This statistic is meaningless when put in context of the function of the two sites.

it's just what compete can track and show for free. If you have the PRO version you can see these analytics deeper.

i wouldn't call that meaningless. i'd call that "facebook still has a lot of catching up to do."

Come on. We all know Compete numbers are picked at random. I wouldn't trust this graph at all.

This reminds me of the importance of thinking about what you want from each visit to your site. Google quickly became about generating a return on each visit (as someone else has said, google: 1 query => 1 visit, where that 1 visit becomes something with potential ad revenue). Facebook hasn't got the context to provide anything like this, I believe.

Does this include gmail, docs, etc?

they just use a "panel multi-sourcing" method. http://www.compete.com/resources/methodology/

nr of visits != nr of visitors ... and the later is more important to me.

It's number of visits. If you look at Unique Visitors stats google.com still first: http://bit.ly/8UDhHK. What is real amazing about these stats is not the visits itself, but the growth. Thinking about the future, FB will pass google under every aspect.

The graph looks fairly stagnant towards the right.

Also I'd like to stress what others have already said: Don't trust the fake metrics from compete.

Plain old common sense tells you how unlikely these figures are. Look around you and count the number of internet users not on facebook. Now look again and count those not using google...

Link bait or irrelevant -- not sure which.

...add google.COM.

you are right, now it's clearer... ;)

I for one, welcome our new Facebook overlords

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