While the decision engine continues to add more features and collaborate with the social networking Facebook, however, based on data provided by insidefacebook.com thru insidenetwork.com data service, Facebook experienced a significant drop in its web traffic in America by the end of May 2011. Although Facebook is on track to reach an all-time high record of 700 million users in June 2011, many early adopter countries experienced drop of users, include Canada, Britain, Norway, and in its birthplace country America. Facebook total users count in America has dropped about 6 million users in May 2011, reported insidefacebook.com. In the beginning of June, there were only 149.4 million users in America, compared to the beginning of May at 155.2 million users.
Many factors for the recent lost of users in America and in other advanced nations. One of those includes college graduations during the first week of May and high-school graduations in the last week of May.
Another hurdle for Bing is that the decision engine is unknown in many developed countries and other late comers to the Internet world such as Indonesia, Brazil, etc. Most of the new Facebook users who will replace advanced nations users are from developed countries. Bing will compete heavily with local search engines while at the same time Google is also a dominant player there.
(Table: insidenetwork.com)
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