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social networking site Facebook has become the most popular in the United States (U.S.), last week. This also marks the success of Facebook beat Google’s search engine giant for the first time.Experian network analyst firm Hitwise said that the number of visitors for Facebook much more than Google visitors until 13 March.”This shows that the content sharing service more attractive and encourage people to surf the Internet,” said Hitwise spokesman Matt Tatham was quoted as saying on CNN television stations pages.Tatham said that the primacy of Facebook also shows that more people trust the opinions of their friends than the results offered by search engines. “Ease of sharing information and content offered by Facebook is the key to their success,” said Tatham to Computerworld.

A total of 7.07 percent of U.S. Internet users visit Facebook last week, while Google’s 7.03 percent accessible. Then in succession Yahoo! Mail to 3.80 percent, the main site Yahoo 3.67 percent, 2.14 percent and YouTube.Although the difference in visits to Facebook and Google is very thin, but the growth of Facebook far beyond Google. Compared with the same period last year, the number of visits to Facebook increased by 185 percent while traffic to Google is only increased 9 percent.”This victory is certainly of great significance for Facebook, although the difference is very small,” said Tatham.

Microsoft says willing to pay one of the largest media companies in the world of News Corporation to gain exclusive access to the news company.Some reports from the London and New York mentioned the return of Microsoft’s willingness to pay the media company owned by Rupert Murdoch is the news content of News Corporation taken from the Google search engine.Charge of this news will only be accessed through a new search engine Microsoft’s Bing.If this trend continues the search engines will compete with each other for the cost to get access to news.this step could end the era of free news on the internet.

During the Internet users can easily get the news free of charge for the media company’s eliminate such access.In the past few days there were efforts by media companies to collect fees from the news that put on the internet.This step is taken after a newspaper circulation worldwide has decreased.On the other hand search engines such as Google to provide the news media owned by various companies for free.