“Is it any surprise, then, that search engines are no longer the most popular sites in the U.S.? Those bragging rights now belong to social-networking sites like Facebook…”

“But, now, when we have idle time, we don’t go to Google anymore; we go to Facebook. And on Facebook, we don’t have to seek information. Instead, information just comes to us.”

“Perhaps Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, is onto something with the alpha release of his new Wikia search engine (currently the 400th most visited engine in the Hitwise directory of search engines in the U.S.), which combines the push of social networks with the pull of information search by allowing users to edit and monitor search results Wikipedia-style.”
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