When asked what would be the most visited website worldwide one would probably have to take a logical guess and say search engine giant “Google”. Personally my second guess would have to be Facebook, but it actually looks like the tables have turned, Facebook is the most visited website for the second year in the row for 2010 and 2011.
As far as the term “Facebook” being searched that comes into play for the third year in a row accounting for 3.1% of all searches for the 2011 year. Remember to take into account four variations of Facebook — Facebook, Facebook.com, Facebook Login and www.facebook.com — the social networking giant’s share of the top 50 searches was 3.48%, an increase of 33%. The four terms also appeared in the top 10:
1. Facebook
2. YouTube
3. Facebook Login
4. Craigslist
5. Facebook.com
6. Yahoo
7. eBay
8. www.facebook.com
9. Mapquest
10. Yahoo.com
When comparing just the homepage of Google.com to Facebook.com the social networking giant receives more visits and pageviews than Google, this is of course excluding Googles network of sites such as Gmail and YouTube.
Here are the rankings:
1. www.facebook.com
2. www.google.com
3. www.youtube.com
4. mail.yahoo.com
5. www.yahoo.com
6. www.bing.com
7. search.yahoo.com
8. www.gmail.com
9. mail.live.com
10. www.msn.com
We can easily see that all of these sites receive a lot of direct traffic and referrals from search engines.
Most Searched Phrases of 2011:
Here are a list of the top rising keywords in 2011 (search terms):
1. Rebecca Black
Most Searched Term: "Rebecca Black" 2011
From Rebecca Blacks hit song “Friday” Rebecca Blacks name quickly rose as one of the fastest rising search queries in 2011. Her hit video went viral and received over 100 million views in just one month along with hundreds of thousands of comments and dislikes that caused quite the discussion on YouTube.
2. Google Plus
Google Plus
In June Google proudly announced its own social network that we now know as Google Plus. In Beta there were a lot of searches related to Google Plus Invites, after it was finally announced publicly the term “Google Plus” spiked millions of searches and the social network has over 40 millions users as of mid-October. It seems like Google Plus has lost some interest over the months, some features Google Plus introduced were business pages which has helped a bit with the social network
3. Ryan Dunn
Ryan Dunn
In the month of June 34-year-old Ryan Dunn was killed in a drunk driving incident. Many of his fans heard of this and were greatly saddened by his death, it was also tweeted by Roger Ebert stating “Friends don’t let jackasses drink and drive.”
4. Casey Anthony
Casey Anthony
Casey Anthony was involved in a 3rd degree murder trial accused of smothering her 2-year-old daughter with duct tape. The internet traffic spiked after the verdict was stated as “Not Guilty”. The discussion on the verdict blew up across social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
5. Battlefield 3
Battlefield 3
Battlefield 3 is a popular first person shooter game developed by EA Games and DICE. In October of 2011 the game sold more than 5 million copies just in the first week and 8 million in the month, Battlefield 3 may have been pretty popular but Activisions Modern Warfare 3 sold 6.5 million copies in a 24 hour time period.
6. Iphone 5
Iphone 5 AKA Iphone4s
While the name was not known at the time, traffic spiked just before the release of what became the “Iphone4s”. Millions of users searched for Iphone5 in hopes to disclose the latest features of this new apple product.
7. Adele
Adele
British(English) singer Adele released her 2nd album 21 in the first months of 2011, the album then hit number 1 in 24 countries and broke the record for most digital downloads.
8.東京 電力
Tokyo Electric: 東京 電力
“東京 電力,” the name of Tokyo Electric Power Company became a rising search term just after the tsunami in Japan of March 2011.
9. Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
The death of Steve Jobs spiked quite the large amount of internet traffic for users searching “Steve Jobs” and “Steve Jobs Death”. Steve passed away on October 5th after battling pancreatic cancer since 2003. After his death was also released his authorized Biography which became the number one selling book on Amazon.
10. Ipad 2
Ipad 2
Another Apple product also rose this year of being one of the most searched terms of 2011. Ipad 2′s went on sale in March and since they were put on shelves stores just couldn’t seem to keep up with the demand for them.
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