Facebook beats Google for visitors [Fact]

Social-networking site Facebook surpassed Google to become the most visited website in the United States for the first time last week. Facebook’s homepage finished the week ending March 13 as the most visited site in the country, according to industry tracker Hitwise.

Google has been positioning challenges in recent months to Facebook and the micro-blogging site Twitter by adding the social-networking feature Buzz to its Gmail service.

This also clearly escalates battle between Facebook and Google, the leading social-networking service celebrated its sixth birthday earlier this year with changes including a new message inbox that echoes Gmail’s format. Facebook boasts some 400 million users while Gmail had 176 million unique visitors in December.