SAN FRANCISCO April 11, according to foreign media reported that analysts say, Facebook users rely on a huge amount has surpassed AOL to become the fifth largest U.S. search engine, and is expected within a few months beyond Ask.com , in the top four.
According to an analyze, Facebook a market share of 2.7%, 2.5% higher than America Online. Facebook came in before the difference is Ask.com (3.1%), will be (7.8%), Yahoo (11.3%) and Google (59.7%).
Facebook is expected to be a very short period of time than Ask.com, became the fourth largest search engine. In addition, Facebook has a huge amount of users, which like other search engines do not need a lot of money and this advantage is likely to help than Facebook in the future will be.
On the other hand, except the market outside the main Google search engine share of the total share of only 27%, far below Google's 60%. The remaining 13% share of the possession by a small search engine, which will be the next focus of competition between search engines. At the same time, Apple might enter the search engine market, leading to variable.
In addition, Microsoft is now the major shareholder of Facebook, if Microsoft could buy Facebook, and Facebook's market share to grow, then Microsoft will be expected to represent the U.S. search market, 35% to 40%, which on Google real threat.
