Facebook is one of the most visited websites on the internet, with many millions of page views each day, so I expect that it will be quite easy to find using a search engine. The search engine that I will be using is www.google.co.uk as I believe it is the most comprehensive search engine available. I will list A few of the criteria that I searched for below
“Facebook” – Returns Facebook as the first result
“Face” – Returns Facebook as the first result
“book” – Returns Facebook as the first result
“Social Network” – Facebook Listed 3rd in results
“Farmville” – opens Farmville website which then links to Facebook, Facebook website appears 3rd in results
“Bebo” – Facebook appears nowhere on the first page
“MySpace” – Facebook appears nowhere on the first page
There are many words which will link a user to the Facebook website, and I believe that it is one of the easiest websites to find using a search engine, as the name and any combination of the parts of the name will bring up the site, from what I can see there are no paid for advertisement results when searching for things to do with Facebook, other than for searching for Farmville, which is one of the most popular games on Facebook at the present time, most links that are not just links directly to the Facebook website normally take you to another website which then links to the Facebook website so it can also be found this way. When searching for competitors there was no sign of Facebook on any of the search pages or any paid for search results to do with any competitors, but when searching for social networking Facebook is the top one there, being below only Wikipedia which is providing a definition of social networking, and with MySpace being a sponsored link at the side but not actually appearing in the search results on the first page. This clearly shows me that Facebook is by far the dominant Social Networking website and is extremely easy to find using a search engine.
