Facebook Posts Phenomenal Growth In Search

Not only is Facebook now the top source of traffic to Web portal sites, the company has also enjoyed a huge percentage gain in U.S. search market share from Dec 2009 to Jan 2010. While nowhere near the volume of Google searches, it’s clearly a growing activity on Facebook which also reflects Facebook’s new emphasis on search in their new homepage design.

According to comScore, Google still has nearly two-thirds of the U.S. search market, but dropped a fraction of a percent from 65.7%