Facebook has caught up with Google for traffic. Is this a sign of the impending tech singularity? Notice that Google hasn’t dropped, but that Facebook just arrived at the same level? I truly believe this to be empirical evidence of the shift in how mankind is consuming media in a new and totally different way. No wonder traditional media channels are suffering such huge losses…

http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/social-networking/facebook-passes-google-in-us-traffic.html
It was bound to happen and many predicted this year would be the one where we see social media – especially Facebook take away the most popular site crown from Google. The social networking site did beat out Google by a miniscule percentage – 7.07% to 7.03% in the US according to Hitwise. It is worth pointing out that social gaming seems to be the reason for the rapid rise of Facebook traffic. Moreover, Comscore and Alexa still rank Google as a traffic leader. Still the trend above has got to worry people at Google, Yahoo! and many media sites.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article7069878.ece
Larry Page turns 37 on Friday. The billionaire co-founder of Google has a lot to celebrate. In 12 years he and his business partner Sergey Brin have created one of the most powerful companies on the planet, seen off rivals big and small, and emerged as the kings of the internet. Life in the digital world, however, moves quickly. Last week Page and Brin’s crown passed — for who knows how long — to a 26-year-old rival who has every intention of keeping it.