New data shows that US web surfers are spending more time socialising on Facebook than searching with Google.
In August, people spent a total of 41.1 million minutes on Facebook, about 9.9 per cent of their web-surfing minutes for the month, researchers at comScore Inc say.
That just barely surpassed the 39.8 million minutes, or 9.6 per cent, people spent on all of Google Inc's sites combined, including YouTube, the free Gmail email program, Google news and other content sites.
US web users spent 37.7 million minutes on Yahoo Inc sites, or 9.1 per cent of their time, putting Yahoo third in terms of time spent browsing.
In July, Facebook crept past Yahoo for the first time, according to comScore.
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