Yesterday Google released their annual Zeitgeist, a measure of the fastest growing search terms on the web for the year. Once again, Facebook was one of the fastest growing search terms for the year. The keyword “Facebook” was the second largest keyword globally, coming right behind “Michael Jackson” who was the most popular search this year for obvious reasons.
Last year we wrote that Facebook was the second most popular search term in the U.S. This year the company has truly expanded to become a global phenomenon. At the time of our post last year, Facebook had over 130 million users. Only one year later the company has almost three times that number. As of now there doesn’t appear to be any slowing in the site’s growth. With all competition now in the rear view mirror, Facebook can truly focus their attention on going after Google.
The only question now is whether or not Facebook can continue with their breakneck growth through next year to remain atop the annual Google Zeitgeist.
I wonder why people google it. http://www.facebook.com seems more obvious, even to the average person.
y do all these companies release best of year lists too early? theyre trying to grab ed of year attention, but 2009 isnt even over yet, so all these books and lists that come out can’t possibly include: the recent Tiger Woods scandal and Health Care Reform’s final bill (assuming it’s done by 11:59 pm december 31st,
why would you ’search’ for facebook? It’s like going to yahoo to search for google. Just type the word ‘facebook’ into the URL field and put ‘.com’ at the end.
may be because people just type “facebook” on the address bar, that is ever easier than typing http://www.facebook.com so then they’re redirected to the site.
I guess the way chrome merged the address bar with the search bar and the fact that other browsers are going to the same direction, changeda and will change some zeitgeist results in the future