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Google vs Facebook Vying for Global Internet Dominance
By EconMatters
NPR published an interesting map of the most visited websites around the world by the Oxford Internet Institute in UK, which compiled the data from Alexa on August 12th, 2013. While it is not surprising that the Institute found "The supremacy of Google and Facebook over any other site on the Web is clearly apparent,' there are some other interesting findings as well.
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Graphic Source: Oxford Internet Institute |
And here are the more country detail:
- Google tops in Europe, North America, and Oceania.
- Facebook rules in most of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as much of the Spanish-speaking Americas.
- Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, and South Africa fall within Google’s empire.
- Ghana, Senegal, and Sudan are under Facebook’s dominion.
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Beyond these two leaders, other home or region-grown sites have carved out its own niche space.
- Baidu dominates in China and South Korea
- Yandex ranks the top in Russia
- Social-networking service VK is the leading site in Belarus
- Email service Mail.ru is the leader in Kazakhstan
- Yahoo! also has its own internet empire in Asia: Yahoo is the most popular website in Japan with Yahoo! Japan (a joint venture between Yahoo! and Softbank), and in Taiwan with Yahoo! Taiwan.
On a side note, Softbank now owns about 80% of Sprint Corporation after a $21.6-billion deal approved by FCC in July 2013.
It is worth noting that although Facebook seems to have gained some real estate on Google, Facebook can't really challenge Google's dominance. As the Institute noted:
The countries where Google is the most visited website account for half of the entire Internet population, with over one billion people.... Baidu is second in this rank, as [China and South Korea] account for more than half a billion Internet users, whereas the 50 countries where Facebook is the most visited website account for only about 280 million users, placing the social network website in third position.
...... among the 50 countries that have Facebook listed as the most visited visited website, 36 of them have Google as the second most visited, and the remaining 14 countries list YouTube (currently owned by Google).
This is likely just a very early schematic of which companies will end up controlling our communication and information access in the future. With this massive global user base, information is power, along with the potential of power abuse.
Google is already facing various privacy cases. Facebook, a social networking site not known for its search capability, apparently is not sitting idly as well. Facebook's new Graph Search where reportedly "most everything shared on Facebook is now easily searchable" even for something deleted or marked as "private" by users. A recent WSJ report also said Facebook would start selling shared user data to TV networks.
The takeaway, in my view, is that while it is exciting to see how technology has evolved enhancing our day-to-day life, work and play, the more important question is data privacy, and what measure and process (on a global basis) should be in place before the world could safely embrace this New World of Big Data.
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Peak FB and peak GOOG.
Fakebook is a fucking joke. I was at some Yuppie party... basically everybody at the party under 30 was on Wastebook... barely anyone over 40. Obviously a generational thing. So I checked out Facebook to see what the big fucking deal was. Holy fuck I want the 2 hours back I wasted trolllng through people's lunch photos and vacation snapshots and thumbs-upping the inania of their lives. There is just literally no fucking point to Wastebook.
Google was awesome when it launched. What was it, 99-2000ish? Kick-ass beast of a search tool. Now it's just another bloated piece-of-shit trying to cram fuckall down my throat I didn't ask for, trying to stylize my searches when I didn't ask for it and depriving me of searches that used to be native to the format. Still waiting for the next thing in search.
Look guys... we have to start asking ourselves if Internet Freedom didn't see it's heyday before September 11, 2001. Maybe Peak Internet Freedom. Been a downhill slide ever since. Anonymity out the window, fucking NSA finetuning their intercept methodology, ISP's throttling traffic, more and more sites caving in to these big websites and services and demanding all sorts of preregistration bs.
Sure, format got more bling, more graphics.. but so what. It's bought and owned. We just cattle mooching on the man's grass. As to contributing to growth in the actual economy, as Bill Bonner has repeatedly pointed out over at the Daily Reckoning in many of his Op-Ed pieces... since the US economy was in contraction before the Internet became an economic phenomenon of note, and hasn't stopped contracting since. Aside from the transition of jobs from various sectors into tech and IT, and the few it's benefitted handsomely... the economy overall has not really gained anything quantitatively from the expanded proliferation of tech.
Big... fat... fucking.... Dud. Ask Detroit.
The whole PURPOSE of google is to search for THINGS, rarely people though now that's assisted too with image-search & with bringing IMDB results up for celebrities near top-priority.
The purpose of FACEBOOK is to AVOID searching for THINGS (which are for sale) and to find PEOPLE (which are not for sale, not "advertised" though fan pages will come up).
For facebook to think they can find an ad model to compete is absurd & they have NO other revenue model.
More of us are ditching facebook for good (I did 2 years ago). No facebook ads, no facebook deciding what I should or should not post. No facebook stalking, no privacy settings to worry about anymore. All shut down.
Google is so good at ads matching search results I don't even block them with noscript or adblock. They are 100% or 99% close to what I'm looking for anyhow.
so no facebook 1-ply or 2-ply discussions? alas...
So if I give away my product for free, but let it collect information about the people I gave it to, then I can sell that information and have a $100 billion company too?
Why does that business model sound so stupid and immoral when you put it that way?
Yet there is the exact $100 billion valued Facebook model.
Worked closely with Yandex. You wouldn't beleive the kind of shit they were doing. And for those who refuse to believe they are controlled by the Russian Govmt, you are dangerously naive and/or brainwashed.
Now, with Google, it's really a good thing this is the US, and we would never let ANY kind of collusion and abuse of power like that happen here, because if we did, then Google would be at least 200x MORE EVIL than Yandex.
Whew, good thing we live in the USA!!!
There are still plenty of free search engines, and plenty of people to talk with outside. Come on people, you can do better than that.
'Ex-Agent: CIA Seed Money Helped Launch Google', retired intelligence agent Robert David Steele interviewed by Paul Joseph Watson, and speaking of the CIA's Dr Rick Steinheiser and his connections with Google:
http://www.infowars.com/articles/bb/google_cia_seed_money_launched_googl...
« Intercepted emails expose Google as an intelligence contractor openly involved in aiding terror organizations throughout Africa, Asia and the world, working well outside any official oversight and authority, far beyond even the CIA’s wildest abuses. »
'Google, Beyond the CIA: Insurgency and Espionage Factory'
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/04/10/google-beyond-the-cia-insurgency...
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CIA, In-Q-Tel, and Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook
« ... funding into Facebook ($US12.7 million) came from venture capital firm Accel Partners. Its manager James Breyer ... served on the board ... of In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm established by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1999. One of the company's key areas of expertise are in "data mining technologies". »
http://adventofdeception.com/facebook-ciacover-nwo-agenda/
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The CIA's Wikipedia, ex-porn-meister Jimmy Wales of CIA - Mossad
« Wikipedia ... Israel’s intelligence services. They control Wikipedia and use it to provide cover for war crimes, smear campaigns and as cover for espionage operations ... Many Wikipedia “editors” are, in fact, terrorists, spies or highly disturbed persons »
- Gordon Duff, editor, Veterans Today, a publication which also notes:
« Wikipedia is hailed by Zionist Israel as "…the major source of information in the world." They even advertise ... that Wikipedia is "…under constant, paid review of Zionist assets." » citing:
http://www.ascertainthetruth.com/att/index.php/the-media/who-controls-th...
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Jack Dorsey's Twitter, the NSA and CIA, the CIA's venture capital firm In-Q-Tel
'US spies will read your Twitter conversations'
« US spies will read your messages posted on Twitter as well as any blogs you contribute to following the CIA's deal with a software firm that monitors social media.
In-Q-Tel, which invests in technology that could support the work of the CIA, has signed a deal with software supplier Visible Technologies ...
"Visible Technologies' platform is key to understanding the breadth and depth of the online social landscape," said Troy Pearsall, executive vice-president of architecture and engineering at In-Q-Tel. »
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/1280091119/US-spies-will-read-your-Tw...
if only the sheep knew that their sheperds referred to their boots as "sheep boots"
Alexa data is flawed, the NSA is number one
We're number one, we're number one
Boooooya NSA /sarc
I get pretty sick and tired of listening to all the tin foil hat types babbling all this conspiracy stuff.
Next thing you know somebody will be claiming that although Obama was born in the US, he was also born a subject of the British Crown and was never qualified to run for president.