{"id":71495,"date":"2012-06-18T18:48:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T02:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=16909"},"modified":"2012-06-18T18:48:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T02:48:21","slug":"the-facebook-search-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/18\/the-facebook-search-plateau\/","title":{"rendered":"The Facebook search plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I check on this every 6 months or so. Here&#8217;s the search trend for Facebook:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/06\/fb1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16910\" title=\"fb1\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/06\/fb1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"588\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone basically knows about Facebook now. Contrast this with Twitter:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/06\/twit1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16911\" title=\"twit1\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/06\/twit1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"588\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All that being said, Twitter has such a smaller footprint compared to Facebook that it seems obvious that it will &#8220;peak&#8221; far below Facebook in both mindshare and public utilization. I do find it interesting that Facebook peaked literally months about <i>The Social Network<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/55pumdfrL94\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I check on this every 6 months or so. Here&#8217;s the search trend for Facebook:<\/p>\n<p>Everyone basically knows about Facebook now. Contrast this with Twitter:<\/p>\n<p>All that being said, Twitter has such a smaller footprint compared to Facebook that it seems o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[303,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71495"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71548,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71495\/revisions\/71548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}