People Spend 3x More Time on Facebook Than Google

People Spend 3x More Time on Facebook Than Google: "

Since then, however, that number has only gone up. According to numbers from Nielsen Online, users spent an average of 5 hours, 46 minutes on Facebook in the month of August. To put that in perspective, that’s triple the amount of time they spent on Google ()!

In fact, the next closest site in Nielsen’s top 10 is Yahoo (), which, despite still having huge traffic in time consuming areas like news, sports, and financial data, could only get users to stick around for 3 hours and 14 minutes on average during the month. YouTube (), surprisingly, only occupied 1 hour and 17 minutes of the average user’s time.

Of course, one of Google’s stated philosophies is that they “may be the only people in the world who can say our goal is to have people leave our homepage as quickly as possible.” However, that ethos was set in stone long before users started spending an inordinate amount of time on social sites – sites that now want to compete in search.

For now, Google’s answer seems to be extending its reach in search through other products – primarily its Chrome () web browser and upcoming OS. But not having a strong presence in social networking remains the company’s Achilles’ heel, becoming ever more apparent as Facebook () pulls away from the pack in usage stats.

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云科技 » Facebook到底赚了哪些钱？

云科技 » Facebook到底赚了哪些钱？: "

Facebook收入的主要来源：

l 自助式的广告：让市场营销人员自己选择那些他们认为合适的Facebook用户，然后把广告投放到在这些用户的页面上。好些大品牌都这样做。在我自己的Facebook主页，现在就有三个移动品牌的广告。

l 不仅大品牌这样做，小企业和个人也会这样做。比如一些明星，可以花钱买下Facebook用户页面上的位置，把流量导向自己的页面。增加自己的受关注度。

l 还有虚拟礼物和虚拟商品可供用户购买。这个收入在之前的美国市场是不被看好的，但在中国的腾讯和日本的Gree等社交网站，一直是最主要的收入来源。而现在，Facebook也证明了这个模式可行。同时，社交游戏也在兴起。

另外，大家都知道Facebook正在开发一个自己的微支付系统。这个系统无疑就会被用到如上的广告和虚拟物品的交易当中，而且每一笔交易，Facebook都可以得到一笔交易费。这是另一个重要的收入来源。

当然，Facebook还是有很多风险。就在几年前Myspace如日中天的时候，还夸耀说，自己每天的广告收入就可以达到100万美金。但是现在，Myspace只能在裁员和战略调整中勉强度日。

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