The 10 Most Searched and Most Visited Websites of 2011
Strangely, people also use search engines to find other search engines.
Experian Hitwise has released their annual list of the year's most searched terms on search engines and as expected, everyone likes Facebook. The social networking giant topped the list for the third-year running, followed by second-place YouTube which moved up from third place in 2010. Craig's List, eBay and strangely, Mapquest also made the top 10, but dominance of social media search terms is the real take-away. Social networking search terms were by the most commonly searched category, accounting for 4.18 percent of the top 50 terms overall (an increase of 12 percent year over year). However, it is 'Facebook' itself that accounted for the lion's share of that percentage. 3.48 of the top 50 terms are variations on the name, like 'Facebook Login' and 'facebook.com'.
Curiously, two of the top ten search terms are for a search engine: 'Yahoo' and 'yahoo.com' clocked in at 6 and 10 respectively, proving that a lot of people seem to remember a time before Google, but not how to find it. Perhaps they ought to let someone google that for them. The top ten most-searched terms are:
1) facebook
2) youtube
3) facebook login
4) craigslist
5) facebook.com
6) yahoo
7) ebay
8) www.facebook.com
9) mapquest
10) yahoo.com
Experian Hitwise also tracked the most-visited sites, and as with search-terms, Facebook topped the list. That ought to give another headache to number 2 Google, already wiping egg of its face after news that Facebook is the most popular Android app. While YouTube is in a healthy 3rd place, Gmail ranked 8 while Yahoo Mail came in at number 4. The top ten most visited sites are:
1) Facebook
2) Google
3) YouTube
4) Yahoo Mail
5) Yahoo.com
6) Bing
7) Yahoo search
8) Gmail
9) Mail.live.com
10) MSN
And because it is of the most pressing concern, the top public figure searched for online was Justin Beiber. While this may seem somewhat disturbing in the same year Osama Bin Ladin was killed, we can take consolation in news that he at least beat Charlie Sheen handily. The Tiger Blood crazyman came in at sixth place. The full press release, including data on music searches, movie titles and 'personality searches, is available on Experian's official site.
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I can't derive the logic behind people searching for facebook.com in search engines. People need to be informed that there is an address bar in their browser to type it in.
Yeah I was sure that facebook will come first. Still i was expecting for some torrent sites to be in top 10 (because of a lot of seeds in some movie and game torrents)
^Agree. There is also something called bookmark. But hey, the same group of people who google for Facebook probably also google for Justin Beiber.
Don't get me worng there is no skype or like that.
And here's me thinking no one used yahoo anymore. Quite a big surprise in fact.
Opinion: If you require a search engine to find Facebook, you probably shouldn't be using Facebook.
Probably won't be long before we see the removal of the address bar from all major browsers and the phrase "Type "Toms Hardware" into a search engine" replaces "visit us at tomshardware.com".
But yes, never quite understood the logic behind typing "www.facebook.com" into Google. Typing "facebook", yes, can get that on the first few visits, but seriously does nobody use bookmarks or favourities anymore?
I can't derive the logic behind people searching for facebook.com in search engines. People need to be informed that there is an address bar in their browser to type it in.
they sometimes wright that wrong in the search bar, happens with everyone, maybe browsers should use only one box like IE9, 10, Opera, Chrome
I can't derive the logic behind people searching for facebook.com in search engines. People need to be informed that there is an address bar in their browser to type it in.
well search engine guards against lazy typos at the cost of 2 clicks
This points out how many are the people who have no idea how to use a browser. They don't know anything about address bar and bookmarks, which is the most simple things in browsing.
I've seen people who wants to search something in the web and they open the browser and type in the address bar random words with no www or .com or anything, just plain text, for example "what's the fastest car in the world". These are people who don't even know how to make Google as a home page or how to type an address.
Every time i put hands on someone's computer, i see tons of useless programs starting with windows and tons of useless programs, plug ins, search bars ecc., installed on their system.
When i check their system, i always find hundreds of registry errors, bunch of gb of space waiting to be cleaned, 30 to 40% hdd fragmentation levels ecc.
Not to mention, that there's still a big % of users who doesn't have antivirus program installed or doesn't even know what this is.
Who the hell types "www.facebook.com" or "facebook login" in Google???? Please....
A lot of them doesn't surprise me. Despite me telling my mum that the search bar in firefox is google (and despite it saying google), she continues to search google in order to get to the google homepage.
Old people gonna old.
On many computers, the cursor starts in the search field when Google is the homepage instead of in the address bar. So, no surprise here.
Yahoo Mail for personal use, Gmail at work. I prefer Yahoo Mail by far.
WTH, I have most of that bookmarked. Why would you take that much time to type it in every time? That's insane.
I can't derive the logic behind people searching for facebook.com in search engines. People need to be informed that there is an address bar in their browser to type it in.
you would be surprised to know that most people aren't web educated
Think about what most people have as a homepage. Many people have toolbars installed, whether they wanted them or not. Many of those pages open with the cursor in a search bar. Rather than clicking at the top, they just start typing.
I have att (bellsouth) as my ISP. If I type in bellsouth.net to check my mail (or leave it as my homepage, which the modem install changes it to), it redirects to
http://att.my.yahoo.com/
Same thing happens every time you update IE, since it MUST change your homepage to MSN
http://www.msn.com/?ocid=iehp
See for yourself why people just type it into the search bar. It's actually the same amount of work. You can type it in the searchbar, then click on the first link, or you can click on the address bar, and then type it in. Most people are lazy and don't care, as long as it works.
Wow. I guess there's a lot of people who can't distinguish their URL bar from their search bar. Or maybe browsers such as Chrome that has a single URL/search bar do a search for eveything entered, even URLs?
I can't derive the logic behind people searching for facebook.com in search engines. People need to be informed that there is an address bar in their browser to type it in.
It's not that shocking when you consider the majority of the population has an IQ below 100.
Yo dawg we heard you like search engines...
so we searched for a search engine in your search engine.
I use google to find some site, there are 2 benefits: less typing, sometimes type a few words and press tab as search engine suggest, and it corrects typos as well
Facebook fools
The fact that both facebook.com and www.facebook.com make it to the top 10 list of SEARCH results tells a lot about the typical user of this service.
they sometimes wright that wrong in the search bar, happens with everyone, maybe browsers should use only one box like IE9, 10, Opera, Chrome
Sure, that happens even to the best of us. But often enough to make the top 10 list?
P***-sites not incuded?
Opinion: If you require a search engine to find Facebook, you probably shouldn't be using Facebook.
Opinion: If you require a search engine to find Facebook, you probably shouldn't be using the internet. (there i fixed it)
WTH, I have most of that bookmarked. Why would you take that much time to type it in every time? That's insane.
Any site that I frequent often, I type in. I know how to type so its way faster for me to do that than to use a bookmark. Typing facebook.com takes literally less than a second for me to type.
they sometimes wright that wrong in the search bar, happens with everyone, maybe browsers should use only one box like IE9, 10, Opera, Chrome
You're effectively proving the point that people can "wright that wrong".
It's not that shocking when you consider the majority of the population has an IQ below 100.
tehcnically... half the population does.
Opinion: If you require a search engine to find Facebook, you probably shouldn't be using the internet. (there i fixed it)
If your using the internet for facebook you shouldn't be using the internet.
"Social networking search terms were by the most commonly searched category, accounting for 4.18 percent of the top 50 terms overall (an increase of 12 percent year over year)."
4.18 percent of the top 50 terms... so 2.09 of the top 50 terms are social networking terms? And last year it was 1.8392 terms? What the hell is this supposed to mean? o_O
Opinion: If you require a search engine to find Facebook, you probably shouldn't be using Facebook.
no those are the people that must use facebook