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Follow UsSAN FRANCISCO, USA: Social networking site Facebook continues its rapid rise and has already become the fourth most trafficked website in the world, according to technology blog TechCrunch.
| Google Sites: 844 million Microsoft Sites: 691 million Yahoo! Sites: 581 million Facebook: 340 million Wikimedia Foundation sites: 303 million AOL: 280 million eBay: 233 million CBS Interactive: 186 million Amazon: 183 million Ask Network: 174 million Source: comScore |
In June this year, Facebook attracted a total of 340 million unique visitors globally, trailing only Google, Microsoft and Yahoo sites, the report said, citing latest results from market research firm comScore.
It said Facebook grew 157 per cent in the past year alone, gaining 208 million visitors. The social networking website surged past Amazon in August last year in terms of worldwide unique visitors. In the first half of this year, it beat eBay, AOL and Wikimedia Foundation sites.
Recently Facebook had announced that it has over 250 million users and the user base is still growing.
While Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are much ahead of Facebook, its rival MySpace has not found place in the top-10 list of comScore.