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'Facebook': The Top Search Term For Third Straight Year

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"Experian Hitwise, a part of Experian Marketing Services, has analyzed the top 1,000 search terms for 2011, and Facebook was the top-searched term overall in the US. This is the third year that the social networking Website has been the top search term overall, accounting for 3.10 percent of all searches, a 46 percent increase from 2010. Four variations of the term "facebook" were among the top 10 terms and accounted for 4.42 percent of searches overall, a 24 percent increase from 2010."

Statistics Source: Hitwise

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