Facebook number two on Alexa since september 2009

Facebook is number two on Alexa since september 2009

Facebook has been world’s second most visited website for more than 5 months now. Taking into account that Google is the default page for most browsers, it is pretty much an unavoidable website. Whether they want to admit it or not, Google and Facebook are in competition for at least one thing: traffic. My view is that they are competing for more than just that. I believe Google and Facebook are two different ways of offering a platform for transmitting knowledge. However, the interactive nature of Facebook place it in a stronger position to fulfill this need. In this regard, using Facebook to get knowledge from our network is going to slowly replace what we used to obtain from Google.

There is another space where Facebook can take pieces of traffic away from Google and that’s in browsers default page. This trends is already happening for hardcore Facebook users. With people increasingly spending time on Facebook, this trend will only be on the rise. Facebook was already number one website for 2009 Christmas where people spend a lot of time sending greetings. I also believe this is not a glitch but more a trend towards Facebook dominating traffic on the Internet.