Facebook (Sort Of) Surpasses MySpace In UK

MySpace is still beating Facebook in the UK - News Corp.’s site receives 41 percent more visits.  But Facebook has just overtaken the older social network in terms of Internet searches, and this has big implications for the future.

As is often the case when we’re dealing with this type of information, thanks are due to Hitwise’s Heather Hopkins for digging up the data.  It seems that Facebook currently holds a 0.40 percent share of UK internet searches, while MySpace has just 0.34 percent.  Another contender, Bebo, is practically in a category of its own with a 1.19 percent market share.

Analysis of the situation as a whole led Hopkins to write, “Facebook still has a way to go before it catches MySpace or