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Versus the anonymity of a search engine
Melbourne, March 18 (ANI): Facebook has become the most-visited site in the US after beating former titleholder Google.
The popular social networking page toppled the search giant after accounting for 7.07 per cent of all US web traffic compared to Google's 7.03 per cent, web analysts Hitwise revealed.
"It's definitely a big moment for Facebook, even though they beat by a small margin," News.com.au quoted Hitwise's Matt Tatham as telling CNN.
He added: "People want information from friends they trust, versus the anonymity of a search engine."
The research did not include other Google services such as Gmail and YouTube.
I know "versus" means "against", anonymity means "unknown persons" and "search engine" is a site like Google but I cannot understand the highlighted parts as a whole.
Source : http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20100318/854/ttc-facebook-beats-google-as-us-most-vis.html
The popular social networking page toppled the search giant after accounting for 7.07 per cent of all US web traffic compared to Google's 7.03 per cent, web analysts Hitwise revealed.
"It's definitely a big moment for Facebook, even though they beat by a small margin," News.com.au quoted Hitwise's Matt Tatham as telling CNN.
He added: "People want information from friends they trust, versus the anonymity of a search engine."
The research did not include other Google services such as Gmail and YouTube.
I know "versus" means "against", anonymity means "unknown persons" and "search engine" is a site like Google but I cannot understand the highlighted parts as a whole.
Source : http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20100318/854/ttc-facebook-beats-google-as-us-most-vis.html
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<< "People want information from friends they trust, versus the anonymity of a search engine. " >> No big mystery. When you use Google, the source of the information is sometimes dubious.
- << "People want information from friends they trust, versus the anonymity of a search engine.
- " >> No big mystery.
- When you use Google, the source of the information is sometimes dubious.
- Sometimes you have a better feeling about somthing you learn from a friend.
- You think you know where your friend is "coming from," but a Google source may have a hidden agenda.
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<< "People want information from friends they trust, versus the anonymity of a search engine." >>
No big mystery.
When you use Google, the source of the information is sometimes dubious.
Sometimes you have a better feeling about somthing you learn from a friend.
You think you know
No big mystery.
When you use Google, the source of the information is sometimes dubious.
Sometimes you have a better feeling about somthing you learn from a friend.
You think you know
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