REPORT: How Google Plus Stacks Up Against Facebook

Last week, Google Plus had about 1.8 million visits in the U.S., while Facebook had more than ten times that.

Ever since Google Plus launched last month, the blogosphere has been making bold declarations about how the search giant’s social media product means the beginning of the end for Facebook.

Well now, we’ve got some hard numbers about this from Experian Hitwise: Last week, Google Plus had about 1.8 million visits in the U.S., while Facebook had more than ten times that.

Those numbers make Google Plus look all the more formidable when compared to where Facebook was after a month or so — it was in the thousands, if we recall correctly.

On the other hand, use of Google Plus still lags behind 15 other social networks in the U.S.,

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