The answer is: 66
Written on December 22, 2008
The question: What percent of countries in the google zeitgeist had “facebook” as one of their ten fastest rising search terms in 2008? This is 23 out of 35 countries including the US (unless I miscounted).
Also, 11 out of 34 countries had “facebook” as one of their most popular search queries (they don’t list most popular in US). Wow. Most of the other social networks had less than 5 slots in total.
Note: I recently became a facebook employee. Thus all thoughts / words / feelings on this blog are mine and do not reflect the opinions of my employer. I will add this to the sidebar soon and may even blog more often in 2009!
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Now that I’m living in India, I’m realizing how big of an opportunity FB still has in this part of the world. I’ve been encouraging our employees here to join FB as less of a social networking tool in the friends/family perspective but as a way of connecting with other employees of our company with whom they interact on email or conference calls but have never met or lack any sense of who they are. I’m finding FB to greatly enhance the relationship people have with their far-off colleagues.
However, a large barrier still exists in that most people still have never even heard of FB! This is in Hyderabad in a world of software engineers…so get moving folks.
Congrats on the new job. I hadn’t fired up Google Reader in a while so I missed this when it was first posted.