For the first time, Facebook overtook Google as the most visited website in the United States last week, according to the Web analytics firm Hitwise. Heather Dougherty, Hitwise’s director of research, said that Facebook had ‘reached an important milestone” with the weekly figures. According to the firm’s weekly figures on March 13, the two sites accounted for 14% of all US internet...

Search engine giant Google Inc. and Facebook Inc., the largest social-networking site in the world,  have been slapped with a lawsuit by Wireless Ink Corp. According to a Bloomberg report, Wireless Ink Corp., which runs the Winksite service, has claimed that Facebook Mobile and Google Buzz are infringing a patent related to ways of offering content that is accessible by mobile devices. The patent...

Facebook tops the list of “World’s Most Innovative Companies 2010.” Compiled annually by Fast Company, a US magazine which focuses on innovation, digital media and technology and list the 50 most innovative companies from around the world. The top 10 out of the 50 are as follows: 1. Facebook 2. Amazon 3. Apple 4. Google 5. Huawei 6. First Solar 7. PG&E 8. Novartis 9. Walmart 10....

Google is the only website that stands in the way of Facebook in becoming the most popular site in the United States. Web analytics firm Compete reports that Facebook surpassed Yahoo to become the second most-visited website in the country.In January, Facebook attracted nearly 134 million unique visitors in while Yahoo’s traffic declined to 132 million unique visitors. Google leads the pack...

Words have been out before that Google’s product Gmail will get social networking features. Google has finally launched its new social product called Google Buzz.Buzz, unveiled yesterday, will let Gmail users share status updates and links to media, like videos, news feeds and photos. It is being compared heavily with Facebook’s FriendFeed service, which also allow posting, sharing and...

Google Inc. is expected to introduce new features that will enable more social networking functionality this week,according to the Wall Street Journal. The move “will allow Gmail users to view a stream of status update from individuals they choose to connect with.” like in Facebook and Twitter. The new feature will provide users with a real-time stream of status updates from their Gmail...

Once upon a time, when one hear the word “URL shortner,” then TinyURL flashes through the mind. Since TinyURL was launched way back in 2002, many join this url-shortening game. URL shorteners are tools that transform a long internet address in to a much shorter sting of random characters so that it is easier to read or share. Earlier this year Bit.ly deposed TinyURL as the official link...

The staggering usage growth of Facebook continues unabated as the company achieves yet another milestone – 100 million U.S. unique visitor in November. Accoridng to comScore, this is the first time the social networking site has exceeded that monthly mark. Just recently, Aol celebrated its re-emergence as an independently-traded company. It was the fourth largest Website in the U.S. until last...

The race to the top and and the final list of most searched terms of 2009 didn’t came as a shock, but was more of a thriller. Michael Jackson’s untimely death in June has topped year-end search lists from both Google and Yahoo. The search companies released their annual lists on Tuesday as an effort to provide a cultural snapshot of what held the public’s interest over the past year....

Many people login to facebook with the help of search engines, primarily Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, and AOL. Search engines help us find answers to information, but they can also help us get to websites without typing URLs. For example, type in “facebook login“ into Google and you can find FacebookLogin.net on the front page as the third result. Users all around the world can type in “facebook...

The search “Facebook Login” ranked number 3 in the 2008 Google Zeitgeist for the fastest rising search phrases. Google Zeitgeist 2008