Facebook, thanks to its 400 million status-updating, link-sharing, asparagus-farming, party picture-posting denizens, has risen to the top of the Internet heap once again, surpassing — at least according to one ranking — search giant Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) in total U.S. visitors for the third time this year.
Facebook accounted for 7.07 percent of all U.S. Internet visits for the week ending March 13, compared to 7.03 percent for Google, noted Hitwise. Facebook previously bested Google on the weekend of March 6-7, and also on Jan. 1 — not to mention Dec. 24-25, 2009.
Unsurprisingly, Facebook has continued to grow at an astounding clip, the Hitwise data shows, with its share of visits rising 185 percent over the same week last year.
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