Congratulations Facebook

#1

Post by corgan1003 » Sat, Jan 31, 2009, 8:14 PM UTC

Re: Congratulations Facebook

#2

Post by omarish » Sat, Jan 31, 2009, 8:44 PM UTC

I don't think anybody types "porn" when looking for porn.. I could probably join on three more terms and exceed facebook: http://tr.im/dvoc.

Just a thought -- you get what you measure.

Re: Congratulations Facebook

#3

Post by apu » Sat, Jan 31, 2009, 9:33 PM UTC

omarish wrote: post #2

I don't think anybody types "porn" when looking for porn.. I could probably join on three more terms and exceed facebook: http://tr.im/dvoc . Just a thought -- you get what you measure.

Except that you don't exceed it with the example you cited. Facebook is clearly doing much better than those terms, starting at about 4Q 2008.

Re: Congratulations Facebook

#4

Post by kwamenum86 » Sat, Jan 31, 2009, 9:39 PM UTC

I read somewhere that many people use Facebook for some of the same reasons they use porn websites...not even joking.

Re: Congratulations Facebook

#5

Post by neilc » Sat, Jan 31, 2009, 9:58 PM UTC

omarish wrote: post #2

I don't think anybody types "porn" when looking for porn.. I could probably join on three more terms and exceed facebook: http://tr.im/dvoc . Just a thought -- you get what you measure.

I don't understand why someone would google for "facebook" in the first place (or at least, more than once). I wonder how accurately the web search traffic for facebook correlates with its actual usage/popularity.

Re: Congratulations Facebook

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Post by staunch » Sat, Jan 31, 2009, 10:07 PM UTC

neilc wrote: post #5

omarish wrote: post #2

I don't think anybody types "porn" when looking for porn.. I could probably join on three more terms and exceed facebook: http://tr.im/dvoc . Just a thought -- you get what you measure.

I don't understand why someone would google for "facebook" in the first place (or at least, more than once). I wonder how accurately the web search traffic for facebook correlates with its actual usage/popularity.

A surprisingly large number of people always use their favorite search engine to get to other sites. They Google for "facebook" or "www.facebook.com". This goes for all web sites.

Re: Congratulations Facebook

#7

Post by antiismist » Sat, Jan 31, 2009, 10:08 PM UTC

neilc wrote: post #5

omarish wrote: post #2

I don't think anybody types "porn" when looking for porn.. I could probably join on three more terms and exceed facebook: http://tr.im/dvoc . Just a thought -- you get what you measure.

I don't understand why someone would google for "facebook" in the first place (or at least, more than once). I wonder how accurately the web search traffic for facebook correlates with its actual usage/popularity.

A lot of people use google instead of typing in URLs. So to get to facebook, people go to google, then type in facebook or facebook.com, and then go from there.

Re: Congratulations Facebook

#8

Post by bullseye » Sat, Jan 31, 2009, 10:41 PM UTC

neilc wrote: post #5

omarish wrote: post #2

I don't think anybody types "porn" when looking for porn.. I could probably join on three more terms and exceed facebook: http://tr.im/dvoc . Just a thought -- you get what you measure.

I don't understand why someone would google for "facebook" in the first place (or at least, more than once). I wonder how accurately the web search traffic for facebook correlates with its actual usage/popularity.

I think some of this is driven from the google toolbar, which many people confuse with the address bar.

On a side note, what really boggles the mind is the number of searches for "google" or "google.com". According to the Keyword Tool, there were approximately 30mil exact searches for "google", and 7.4mil searches for "google.com"!

Re: Congratulations Facebook

#9

Post by jacoblyles » Sun, Feb 01, 2009, 12:53 AM UTC

bullseye wrote: post #8

neilc wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand why someone would google for "facebook" in the first place (or at least, more than once). I wonder how accurately the web search traffic for facebook correlates with its actual usage/popularity.

I think some of this is driven from the google toolbar, which many people confuse with the address bar. On a side note, what really boggles the mind is the number of searches for "google" or "google.com". According to the Keyword Tool, there were approximately 30mil exact searches for "google", and 7.4mil searches for "google.com"!

Some browsers will google search a term typed into the address bar if it is not a fully specified URL. On my system, if I just type "google" into an address bar, it directs me to the google search for "google".

Re: Congratulations Facebook

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Post by old-gregg » Sun, Feb 01, 2009, 2:25 AM UTC

staunch wrote: post #6

neilc wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand why someone would google for "facebook" in the first place (or at least, more than once). I wonder how accurately the web search traffic for facebook correlates with its actual usage/popularity.

A surprisingly large number of people always use their favorite search engine to get to other sites. They Google for "facebook" or "www.facebook.com". This goes for all web sites.

I do it all the time. With all these web 2.0 domain names I can never be sure was it wufoo or woofu or woofoo dot com. But google is sure.