Facebook’s 161 million searches pale in comparison to the core search engines, but as it is the case with email activity, we could very well see a behavioral shift over time, where users execute more and more searches in context of their favorite community. Facebook will have to significantly improve search integration for that to happen though.

  • 12.7 billion core searches in Dec. ’08, +3% versus November
  • Google 63.5% with 8 billion searches
  • Yahoo! 20.5% with 2.6 billion searches
  • Microsoft 8.3% with 1.1 billion searches