U.S Facebook Traffic Has Grown By 55% In The Last Year
 

Phenomenal numbers...

Source:
mashable.com/2010/11/18/facebook-comscore-growth-october/

and there's still people who consider themselves webmasters and business who this very day on this very forum, still can't see why Google should be worried about Facebook's advances... durrrrrrrrrr...

A Facebook search engine would whack Google over the head with a brick.

No kidding! Imagine being able to "like" results, automatically telling people what you bought, seeing your friends' favorite sites, etc...

Congratulations, Facebook, with more traffic.

That's what the new web will be al about. And geolocation.

There's been speculation going way back now that a social search engine is something that could be on Facebook's plate. It is entirely possible too. Like you said, it will deliver a hard blow to Google whose mainstay is their domination of the search market. But they'll have to do it right. Which I think is why we haven't seen it yet. A premature or incapable release would be a horrible blow to Facebook's reputation.

Google can obviously see this threat on the horizon too, which is why they're fighting so hard to get into Facebook dominated territory every chance they can.

(applause) to them

Imagine all of the wasted time looking at your friend's nephew's cousins baby pictures.

The way I can see them fucking it up is to do with the whole way Facebook seems to run which is about telling the whole world what you are up to 24h a day - the constant updates of what someone just ate/thought/bought/saw. Now mix that together with a search engine and it will be some monster that tells everybody you know what you have been searching for, your favourite sites that you regularly go through the search engine to get to, really invasive stuff that Google logs but then uses privately for themselves will be their next oh didn't you realise you had to update your privacy settings? disaster.

I second that concern :thumbsup

What percentage of all Internet traffic goes to Facebook? Half? Sixty percent?

No wonder why our sales suck.

facebook has a search engine and people use it as such.

Here you go (also from mashable)

WTF!!

I found Facebook about as interesting as watching paint dry. Maybe I have the wrong circle of friends. but who cares what 200 people ate/thought/bought/saw today?

Would rather watch a porn movie. LOL

facebook is a different way of organizing and finding information so comparing it to a traditional search engine is apples and oranges.

for a marketer a facebook is just a market, you don't have to find a farmer's market interesting to sell organic eggs at it.

also boring people tend to have boring friends thus their experience is poor.

i've embraced fb as much as possible for my gen pop products. you can see what i've done if you want-

http://www.takechargefood.com/produc...arge-Food.html

am also running fb ad campaign, i am pleased with the results of marketing via fb so far.

geez um not everyone wants to attention whore their life on FB like that.... :1orglaugh

what's this? you have a page on facebook?

Your page grew quite a bit since I last saw it! :thumbsup:thumbsup

i have a business page there that drives traffic to the page link in my post above. on that page, I configured a fb social plugin to show the product's fans to help close sales
yeah, things are ramping up pretty quickly now. :thumbsup

!!

facebook sucked all the traffic... they own the traffic now.

Facebook is the best way to keep tabs on every single idiot that is on there lol